Tuesday, April 9, 2013

France Gets New Camel After Other One Is Eaten

Malian authorities will give French President Francois Hollande another camel after the one they gave him in thanks for helping repel Islamist rebels was killed and eaten by the family he left it with in Timbuktu, an official in Mali said.

A local government official in northern Mali said on Tuesday a replacement would be sent to France.

"As soon as we heard of this, we quickly replaced it with a bigger and better-looking camel," said the official, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.


"The new camel will be sent to Paris. We are ashamed of what happened to the camel. It was a present that did not deserve this fate."

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