Neither the UN Nor the EU Seem To Be Providing Much Support to the French Forces in Mali

The French are complaining that neither the United Nations nor the European Union

seem to be providing much in the need of support, write Nathalie Guibert and Alexandra Geneste.

Le Monde also has a list of France's main military interventions in Africa since the year 2000.

Incidentally, the troop-transporting airplane in the pictures is American, notes the photo caption.