(VOVworld)- French President Francois Hollande on Sunday called an urgent meeting to discuss two French journalists killed by gunmen in Mali.

Radio France International journalists Ghislaine Dupont, left, and Claude Verlon were grabbed as they left the home of a rebel leader. Photo: RFI

The French Foreign Ministry confirmed that two French journalists from Radio France Internationale (RFI) were kidnapped and killed in Kidal city, northern Mali after a private interview at house of a member of the Mouvement National de Libération de L'Azawad (MNLA). Hollande expressed his anger at the action, which he called “despicable”. Kidal is the den of the MNLA, the organization that is asking to establish an independent Tuareg country in Northern Mali.