For the courier to the hostages in Mali

When it became known on March 13, 2008, that the hostages kidnapped in Tunisia could be abducted to Mali, the KURIER asked if I wanted to fly to Mali. No problem for me, because I was already in the capital Bamako two months ago to hand over an ambulance donated by the Red Cross Groß-Enzersdorf. So I was vaccinated and ready to go immediately. When it was finally established that the hostages were in Mali, I flew to Africa the next day. On Friday, March 14, 2008, I started at nine o'clock in the morning for the adventure "In the footsteps of Wolfgang Ebner and Andrea Kloiber" to Mali in Africa.
From Flughafen Wien-Schwechat, I first flew to Paris, where I boarded the plane to Bamako after a three-hour wait at Charles De Gaulle Airport.
It was 10 p.m. when I set foot on Malian soil for the third time. I was expected by my friend Peter Klein, the former Austrian honorary consul in Mali, where I initially stayed.
But not for long, because the next day I had to flee, because Special Ambassador Prohaska was announced - and it was impossible for an Austrian reporter to stay with a member of the negotiating group. (To be continued)