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There should always be fuss when 129 people are killed by terrorists. There is just not enough attention paid to the issue when it is in a country far away from Europe or the North American continent. I try to watch some Al Jazeera as well as the standard news on channels like RTE and BBC. It is good to have some perspective. An African, Asian, Middle Eastern life is every bit as important as a European or American one.

agreed...I would bet the news reports in countries adjacent to Mali are all about Mali Or same when adjacent to Nigeria
But all life is to be treasured

This.

all innocents death is terrible.

excuse me it's the kills in paris did so much " fuss" .. it's not a competition.

Most of the western world has grown apathetic towards the third world and lesser developed nations. Especially those in Africa. Nations like the US and UK who are looking for a reason to put boots on the ground again can better relate to a nation developed and populated like France hence all the focus there.

Horrible events happen across the globe every day, but most media outlets only have so much room for news with all the opinionated crap these days. Therefore expect them to pick the headlines they can gain the most from and they'd gain so little by focusing on a nation like Mali.

That being said the events in both nations are equally horrible.

Paris is civilized and Mali isn't. Such things are expected.

Because Paris is world famous and very touristic. It’s a place where you would not expect it to happen a carnage.

Because the 130 victims died in something you do all the time, eating out with friends, go to a rock concert, a football game. It could happen to you and that is why draws our attention, not as what happens in a country where a thousand misfortunes happen every day (at least this is my case).

It’s what occurs to me.

There was a very good post by Rory O'Neill (aka Panti Bliss) shared widely in irish social media. I'll post it here in segments as it's quite long. I think it's a good response to your slightly passive aggressive rhetorical question.

Stop shaming people because you think they aren't caring about the right tragedies.
If you don't understand why Irish people might feel more shock at a mass murder in Paris (a city most of us have visited, spent time in, a country most of us have visited possibly many times, a language most of us learnt in school, a city where we have eaten in restaurants and gone to concerts, a city where most of us have friends, a country that is one of our closest neighbours and oldest partners, a country that we share so much with, and a city that we reasonably think of as being safe from such horror) and suggest that it's somehow racist to be more deeply effected by the tragedy there than in a country you can barely find on a map and have no connection to, then you know nothing about normal human nature. Would you go up to someone grieving for a friend and roll your eyes and say "Why weren't you crying yesterday when another person you barely know died?!"

Stop whinging about people putting the French flag on their profile pics. If someone is upset and feels helpless and showing their solidarity helps them feel a little less helpless, then let them. A minute ago you were complaining that they don't care about Beirut, and now you're complaining because they do care about Paris?

And if you think there was no outrage over the Kenyan school attack (which happened back in the spring, BTW, not "earlier this week") then you need to start reading a decent newspaper. It was huge news.
And finally, it's not humanly possible to care deeply about every awful thing that happens in the world. If we did we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning. There are good psychological and mental reasons why we don't and can't feel every tragedy so keenly. So if a tragedy that feels close to home effects people more deeply, let them. Don't try and make them feel bad for it. And don't try and make yourself feel superior by admonishing them for not being so deeply effected by your chosen tragedy.

Sometimes it really is better to keep your thoughts to yourself if you have nothing nice to say.
OK, rant over. But my FB feed has become a never-ending scroll of trying to make people feel bad about caring.
EDIT: For the sake of people who misread this, I have *not* argued that we shouldn't care about atrocities that feel further from us. There is of course a reasonable wider discussion to be had about how we react differently to different atrocities and our own biases. But shaming people because they are shocked and upset about a tragedy that feels close to them is just being a dick.

Ok, so all the above replies are from Rory O'Neill's FB post. My deleted comment below was just me pasting bits into the wrong dialogue box. Better to keep the entire quote in this thread for coherence. Thank you.

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Sorry for the french people, another attack of false flag