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West Africa:
U.S. Establishes Drone Base in Niger
This Day, 30 January 2013
The United States of America is planning to establish a drone base in Niger, a country sandwiched between Nigeria and Mali, two nations that have been under attack from Islamic… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Rwanda Unhappy at Spy Drones Over Congo
News of Rwanda, 11 January 2013
The United Nations (UN) has been challenged over its recent proposal that it would use aerial Vehicles in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a suggestion that Rwanda's Prime… Read more »
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Africa:
The Costs and Consequences of Drone Warfare
Chatham House, 11 January 2013
One of the distinctive elements of President Barack Obama's approach to counterterrorism has been his embrace of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones, to target terrorist… Read more »
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Mali:
How Can U.S. Help Stabilize Mali's Political System?
African Arguments, 13 March 2013
Recent and still unconfirmed reports of the killings of top leaders of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb underscore tangible advances made by French and African forces in rolling… Read more »
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Libya:
Libya Deploys First Drones
Magharebia, 18 March 2013
Unmanned Libyan drone aircraft are being used for the first time by the country's Air Force, Libya Herald reported Sunday (March 17th).The head of the army's air defences,… Read more »
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Africa:
'Drone' a Dirty Word in the UN Lexicon
IPS, 7 February 2013
The "drone", one of the eminently controversial lethal weapons deployed by the United States in its war against terrorism, is obviously a dirty word in the U.N. lexicon. Read more »
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Africa:
The Stealthy Militarisation of Africa
SACSIS, 21 February 2013
The US Africa Command (AFRICOM), assembled under the leadership of President George W. Bush's hawk Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2007, now flexes it muscle across the… Read more »
