France to Send Drones to Mali As Jihadists Flock to North

France is reportedly planning to move two surveillance drones to west Africa before the end of the year.

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  • Mali:  France to Send in Drones - Report

    Radio France Internationale, 23 October 2012

    France is to send surveillance drones to back up west African intervention in northern Mali and is meeting top US diplomats in Paris this week to discuss the fighting the Islamist ... read more »

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The Azawad region in northern Mali.

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  • ras sideeq
    Oct 23 2012, 21:36

    FRANCE IS LOOKING FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER FOR A SECOND TIME IN WESTERN INVASTION MUCH LIKE THE ONE THEY USED IN IVORY CAOST WITH GBAGO OVERTHROW.. THE IVORIANS ARE PUPPETS AT THE MOMENT THE FRENCH HAS TOO MANY TROOPS IN AFRICA PROTECINTG IVORY COST""!! THEY HAVE TOO MANY TROOPS IN AFRICA, THEY WANT TO USE THE PEOPLE IN IVORY COAST FANNING THE FLAMES CALLING FOR OUT RIGHT MURDERS UNTIL THEY SAW THAT GABAGBO HAD THE UPPERHAD SO THEY BROUGHT IN BIG GUNS WITH UN USING ITS PLACEE AS A NUETARAL ENTITY .THEY STEPPE UP FOR FRANCE INVADING THE NATION DROPPING HEAVY BOMBS DESTROYING THE CAPITOL UNTIL THEY PLUMMETETD THE PEOPLE INTO SUBMISSION. THEN THEY WENT INTO LBYA STARTED THE MASS NURDERS OF BALCK MIGRANT WORKERS THEN THEY WENT AFTER THE TURE TARGETS THE BLACK INDEGENOUS ARABIC AFRICANS WHO WERE THE ORIGINAL LIBYAS THEY USED GADAFFI AS AN EXCUSE AND WE CAN OT FIND THE TREMENDOUS AMMOUNTS OF INDEGENOUS BLACK TOWNS LEFT TODAY IN LIBYA THEY MURDERED AND RAN THEM OUT OF LIBYA THIS WAS GENOCIDE AND POLITICAL RANCOURING WITH WESETREN GOVERNMENTS AT THYE HELM. STEVENS GOT WHAT HENEVER DREAMED THAT WOULD TURN AROUND AND BITE HIM!!. EVERYTHING THEY DO IN AFRICA TODAY ISM GOING TO BE LIKE A PLAGUE TO THEM ,THE MORE THEY PUSH FOR INJUSTICE AND CRIMINALITY,THE MORE THE AFRICAN IS GOING TO REACT TO THE NGATIVE, PPOSITIVE TO THE REALIY ON THE GROUND . YOU CAN'T MAKE NEGATIVE FOM POSITIVE THE WEST GETS NOTHING BUT GODD PRICES FOR THE TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER

  • fillipeescobar
    Oct 11 2012, 23:50

    for anyone to believe in the US in the present world is ignorance of the highest oder.democracy is simply an illusion and there is no rights for Africans of any nature the US government is a banch of capitalist who's religion is war and retual is killing so far where have they restored democracy or its just the same song with a different tune.Africa needs to wake up from the slamber