BAMAKO – Mali's prime minister resigned along with his entire government on Thursday following criticism over their handling of an upsurge of violence in the centre of the country and a massacre last month that left 160 people dead.
"A prime minister will be named very soon and a new government will be put in place after consultations with all political forces" from both the ruling and opposition sides, the statement from Keita's office said. Members of the Dogon ethnic group - a hunting and farming community with a long history of tensions with the nomadic Fulani people over access to land - were blamed for the mass killing.
So-called self-defence groups emerged in the Dogon community with the declared role of providing protection against the insurgents. Mali has been struggling to restore stability since Islamist extremists linked to Al-Qaeda took control of the country's vast desert north in early 2012.
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