Soldiers of the Malian Forces (FAMa). Thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes. FILE PHOTO | HANDOUT | ECPAD via AFP
Jihadists, armed militias and the armed forces in Mali killed close to 600 civilians in 2021, the UN said Thursday, with casualty numbers rising towards the end of the year.
In the last six months of 2021, civilian killings rose 16 percent, according to a report by the United Nation's peacekeeping mission in the troubled Sahel state, known as Minusma.
