Dakar drivers move to Burkina Faso
BAMAKO, Mali -- Competitors in the suspended Dakar Rally have driven from Mali to neighboring Burkina Faso, where the race will restart on Tuesday.
Event organizers canceled the 10th and 11th stages in Mali's vast interior due to security fears linked to what they called "armed bands" operating there.
Spokesman Roger Kalmanovitz said the vehicles made their way along established roads from Bamako, Mali's capital, to the departure point for the race's next leg, Bobo Dioulasso, in southwestern Burkina Faso.
The rally has a prescheduled rest day there on Monday.
The rally, due to finish on January 18 outside the Senegalese capital, Dakar, was rerouted previously in 2000 when an alleged terrorist threat forced organizers to airlift the entire race from Niger to Libya.
