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Photo dated August 26, 2012. Notice the construction of an adjacent taxi-way and support facilities.
house a fleet of drones that can be equipped with Hellfire missiles and satellite-guided bombs. The drones are reportedly used in operations against Al-Shabaab.
Niamey, Niger
Diori Hamani International Airport in Niamey, Niger has hosted PC-12 surveillance flights since 2012. On February 22, 2013 President Obama sent a letter to Congress that approximately 100 troops would be sent to Niger to support intelligence collection and facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region. The same day the AP published a story quoting two senior defense officials as saying that the troops, mostly U.S. Air Force logistics specialists, will be setting up a drone base in the capital of Niamey. The drones will reportedly be unarmed and used for surveillance. The location also currently hosts French activities in relation to Mali.
Entebbe, Uganda
Since at least 2009, the U.S. military has been using defense contractors to run surveillance flights in unmarked PC-12 aircraft from out of Uganda. The flights are part of a secret project codenamed Tusker Sand that searches for Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, processing imagery from over the airspace of Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. In August 2011, the U.S. government provided small unarmed drones to Uganda and Burundi.
The Ugandan military operates an airbase adjacent to the Entebbe International Airport that is reportedly used by the U.N. and foreign military forces. Photo dated July 2, 2011.
safeguards US DoD personnel. Kenya is among our strongest supporters in the region and a key friend in the regional war on terror. The Kenyan military has publicly denied that it hosts U.S. drones or surveillance flights.
Photo of the airfield looking West. Photo dated April 16, 2006.
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