Mali accuses France of arming Islamist fighters

Mali’s overseas affairs minister, Abdoulaye Diop, has accused the French army command of breaching Malian airspace to gather info and drop arms and ammunition to Islamist militants, in a letter to the UN. Diop supplied no proof to point out that France had equipped arms. France has spent a decade and billions of {dollars} stamping out Islamist militants, some with hyperlinks to al Qaeda and Islamic State, in its former colony.