d Friday, former US ambassador to Mali, Vicki Huddleston, said as much as $89 million could have been paid out in ransom payments from 2004-11.Huddleston, the US ambassador to Mali from 2002-05, said Germany, other European countries except Britain, and Canada had paid ransoms, helping to finance the Islamist groups which last year seized control of northern Mali.France, which is now battling to h