French FM says dialogue with Mali jihadists not possible

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, on a trip to Mali on Monday, ruled out dialogue with jihadists driving an eight-year-old insurgency in the Sahel state. “Let’s say things very clearly. There are peace accords (with former rebel groups) and there are terror groups which have not signed the peace accords,” the minister said. “Things are simple,” he added at a press conference in the capital Bamako. Le Drian arrived in Mali on Sunday,…