Context: Although Mali has enjoyed a reasonably good inter-ethnic relationships based on the long history of coexistence, some hereditary servitude and bondage relationship exist, as well as ethnic tension between settled Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs of the north. Due to a backlash against the northern population after independence, Mali is now in a situation where both groups complain about discrimination on the part of the other group. This conflict also plays a role in the continuing Northern Mali conflict where there is a tension between both Tuaregs and the Malian government, and the Tuaregs and radical Islamists who are trying to establish sharia law.

Question: Ethnic tension are between what two groups of people?
Answer: Songhai and nomadic Tuaregs

Question: Radical Islam and the Tuaregs are both considered problematic according to whom?
Answer: Malian government

Question: What group of people are trying to establish sharia law?
Answer: radical Islamists

Question: What type of hereditary relationships still exist today?
Answer: servitude and bondage

Question: Songhai and Tuaregs both complain about what same issue towards each other?
Answer: discrimination

Question: What does Mali not have a long history of?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What kind of relationships no longer exist in Mali?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What exists between the settled Tuaregs and the nomadic Songhai?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What plays a role in the tension between the Soanghai and the government?
Answer: Unanswerable