PARIS (Reuters) - Malian authorities must react strongly after at least 16 Fulani herders were killed in suspected ethnic clashes, France's foreign ministry said on Monday as its former colony gears up for elections.
Thousands of French forces have been based in the West African country and the wider Sahel region since Tuareg rebels and loosely allied Islamists took over its north in 2012, prompting Paris to intervene to push them back the following year.
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