BAMAKO: Two French radio journalists were found dead after being kidnapped by armed men in north Mali in what President Francois Hollande called a “despicable” act as he ordered an emergency ministers meeting for Sunday.

Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon of Radio France Internationale (RFI) had travelled on Saturday to the northern city of Kidal to interview a spokesman for the Tuareg separatist group the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), and were abducted outside his home, according to their employer.

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