 Events related to the Northern Mali conflict occurred in Diabaly in September 2012 and January 2013.On the evening of 8 September 2012, 17 unarmed Dawa Tablighi preachers from Mauritania arrived in Dogofry, north of Diabaly, in a Toyota minibus, on their way to a religious conference in Bamako.A group of Malian army soldiers arrested the preachers and executed all but one of them.