Digital Globe satellite imagery of the U.S. military base at Camp Lemmonier in Djibouti, dated Sept. 20, depicts NASA’s WB-57 high-altitude aircraft on the recently-expanded auxiliary operations apron. The question is—why? What purpose does a scientific research plane have in visiting America’s main military outpost in Africa? One possible answer is … making maps for […]
The latest satellite imagery acquired by DigitalGlobe from 16OCT13 shows the new drone apron at Djibouti’s Chabelley Airfield, a location 5 miles southwest of Camp Lemmonier. Over the last decade, the US has stepped up military activity in Africa and further afield, most notably with the increased use of drones in nearby Yemen and Somalia. […]
According to a recent report from the Washington Post, the US military has been forced to relocate its (at least) two combat air patrol of drones based at Djibouti’s Camp Lemmonier to nearby Chabelley airfield, a location approximately 5 miles to the southwest. The Air Force stopped flying drones earlier this month after a series […]
I’ve been seeing references like that everywhere over the weekend. Only one problem, I wasn’t aware that anything had changed. Picking one at random, Elias Groll over at Foreign Policy penned a piece titled “The Sudden and Unexpected Return of the Drone War.” With journalistic flair, he hits all the salient points from the past […]
Members of the 391st light infantry battalion trained by the US forces at the recently renovated Camp Base facility, took part in war crimes and mass rapes, according to a report from the UN. The FARDC units which were engaged in fighting with the M23 in Kibumba and Munigi, north of Goma, from 15 November […]
