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Mali, Wagner ‘killed dozens of ethnic Fulani’
Sunday Tribune
|July 27, 2025
THE Malian army and Russia’s Wagner group killed dozens of ethnic Fulani men this year during anti-jihadist operations in the troubled west African nation, Human Rights Watch said this week.
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Primarily nomadic herders, the Fulani are often stigmatised across the Sahel, accused of collaborating with armed Islamist groups and providing the bulk of their recruits.
Mali’s army and the Wagner paramilitary group “appear to have executed at least 12 Fulani men and forcibly disappeared at least 81 others since January”, HRW said.
It said it had credible reports, corroborated by the UN, that 65 of the missing from a village in the western Kayes region had been executed in April.
“The Malian soldiers and Wagner group fighters accuse the Fulani community of collaborating with Islamist armed groups fighting to control parts of the country,” HRW said.
This story is from the July 27, 2025 edition of Sunday Tribune.
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