- Will RossAfrica editor, BBC World ServiceMali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has replaced the army chief of staff and the head of the country's land forces - a day after 134 Fulani villagers were killed by a rival ethnic group in the Mopti Region of the country.The government says it is banning a militia which it says was behind Saturday's attack - the latest in a series of deadly killings.The first video footage from Ogossagou village shows the smouldering remains of people's homes - the mud walled huts collapsed after they were torched by the attackers.There are burnt out vehicles and on one side of the village the body of a Fulani child no more than two years old.A local mayor says pregnant women were cut open with machetes and people were thrown down wells.The Malian government says it is banning the Dan Na Ambassagou militia or self-defence group, which it says carried out the attack.But jihadists are also active in central Mali and Fulanis have carried out attacks too.It's a complex conflict which the Malian army has failed to deal with.
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