Did I misunderstand this? Are you really planning to skip all that is wondrous about Mali because of the single recent killing of a Western hostage? I can't imagine where in Africa (or, truthfully, elsewhere) you might go where there have not been incidents of violence recently. How are you going to get to West Africa, for example, without driving through Mauritania or Algeria--both of which, on the evidence, have been more dangerous to tourists recently than Mali?
I think you must be reading different news reports from the ones I've seen. Maybe it's me who is out of step, not you.....but I can't quite see it. Or maybe I'm still bitter about having rocks thrown at me in Burkina Faso (of all places) and seeing bikers who'd been freshly shot off their bikes in calm, peaceful Ghana.
Safe journeys!
Mark
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