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Originally Posted by Rochard
I don't know anything about drones.... However, if anyone has been paying attention to what our military is doing we've been active in Africa for some time now. It's not front page news, but it's not exactly secret either.
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Why US troops are in Niger - ABC News
They arrived in early 2013 to help the French military that had intervened in neighboring Mali the year before. The French had moved into Mali after an Al Qaeda affiliated group and tribal groups took over the vast northern part of the country and were moving toward the capital of Mali.
As part of the U.S. effort to assist that mission then-
President Barack Obama ordered 150 U.S. military personnel to set up a
surveillance drone operationover Mali that would fly from Niger's capital of Niamey."