Embedded in Mali – Correspondent

Correspondent

via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/france-military-embedded-in-mali

But it’s a simple equation. Without the army we wouldn’t be here. Northern Mali has become too dangerous to venture without protection. Two of our colleagues from RFI were kidnapped and murdered while reporting in Kidal in November 2013. No story is worth the risk of getting killed, or spending three years as a captive in the desert, chained to the bumper of a pick-up truck.