The Defence Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, announced Thursday that 1,400 French troops were now engaged in operations against armed Islamists in Mali.
This morning, there are 1,400 French soldiers on the ground Malian Minister said on the sidelines of a trip to Vincennes, while they were more than 800 according to the score given yesterday by the Ministry of Defence. There was fighting yesterday (Thursday, ed) on the ground and by air. There was this night there at the moment, said Mr Le Drian.
Referring to the hostage crisis in Algeria on site gas, the minister has just said that the French authorities were in constant contact with the Algerian authorities. We fully trust the Algerian authorities to deal with the complex situation they face on site, he added.
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