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.