
RFI's Claude Verlon, 58, and Ghislaine Dupont, 51, were abducted on Saturday after interviewing a local leader.
Mr Fabius called the killers "terrorist groups who reject democracy".
Kidal is at the epicentre of a political dispute between
ethnic Tuareg nomads and the rest of the population of Mali, who are
black Africans.
- There are 200 French troops and 200 UN peacekeepers as well as a Malian army base in Kidal.
- Radio France Internationale (RFI) said Mr Verlon and Ms Dupont were on their second assignment there, having travelled to the town in July to cover the first round of the presidential election.
- Ambeiry Ag Rhissa, a local official of the MNLA ethnic Tuareg separatist group, said the pair had just left his house after interviewing him when they were kidnapped.

The BBC's Mark Doyle says one detail given by the French
foreign minister was that the car used for the kidnapping, found a just a
few metres from the journalists' bodies, was locked.
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