Struggle for Mali's 'masters of the waters'

Struggle for Mali's 'masters of the waters'
AFP
3 hrs ago
© MICHELE CATTANI
Boats along the Bani river in Mopti, situated in the Inner Niger Delta
Members of Mali's nomadic Bozo ethnic group, who dominate the fish trade on the Niger River, are increasingly settling in towns in the face of insecurity in the Sahel.
There are hundreds of ethnic groups in the semi-arid African region, but the Bozo people have traditionally occupied a specific niche.
Along with the Somonos, they were long the only people to navigate the Niger where it flows through the Sahel.
"We were the masters of the waters," said Ousmane Djebare Djenepo, a Bozo who heads the fishermen's federation in the inner delta of the Niger River, in central Mali.

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