... A tribal feud between Fula people from Burkina Faso and Dogon tribesmen from Mali...Ouagadougou, Mali (ANTARA News) - At least 25 Burkinabe have been killed in three days of tribal clashes along Burkina Faso's border with troubled Mali, a minister told AFP Thursday.
"A tribal feud between Fula people from Burkina Faso and Dogon tribesmen from Mali" broke out in the Malian village of Sari, Territorial Administration Minister Jerome Bougouma said, adding that the clashes "had left at least 25 dead on the Burkinabe side."
He could not say how many Malians had been killed in the fighting, which started on Tuesday.
The clashes between Dogon farmers and Fula herders competing for water and land sparked an influx of refugees into Burkina Faso, the minister said.
"We have started receiving hundreds of refugees from Sari," Abdoul Ouarma, a correspondent with the state AIB news agency in the northwestern town of Titao near the Malian border.
He said the refugees recounted that the violence erupted when the Fula complained that the Dogon farmers had sowed seed on land traditionally reserved for migrating herds.
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