Mali’s government on Sunday announced the sacking of senior military officers and the dissolution of an ethnic militia, a day after the massacre of more than 130 Fulani villagers, including women and children. Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said new military chiefs would be named, and that the Dan Nan Ambassagou association, composed of Dogon hunters, had been dissolved. The …

  The Islamist group al-Shabab has seized a military base in southern Somalia, which was until recently occupied by Kenyan troops. Kenyan forces serving with the African Union force in Somalia have also withdrawn from another base in the area, near the Kenyan border. Somali forces have also been leaving military bases in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, saying they …