40 killed in central Mali jihadist-hunter clashes

About 40 people have been killed in recent clashes between jihadists and traditional hunters, the government of central Mali's Mopti region said Monday, with the fighting displacing about 1,000 people.

The war-torn region's government said in a statement that the clashes began as a dispute between two brothers, one a traditional hunter and the other an alleged jihadist.

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