(1)Construction of a U.S MQ-9 Reaper Drone base in Niamey, Niger in 2016
Construction of another drone base in Agadez Niger January 2017, one a month after Nigerian troops capture Sambisa forest.
(3)Niger has positioned itself to be the key regional hub for U.S. military operations, with Agadez serving as the premier outpost for launching intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions against a plethora of terror groups.
(4)U.S drone base in Garoua, Cameroon, a city in northern Cameroon, lies along the Benue River approximately 30 miles east of the Nigerian border
The U.S says this $110 million facility is being built to help with the fight against Boko 3.
A Gray Eagle MQ-1C drone above Garoua, Cameroon
French airbase in Mali. The base houses Eurocopter attack helicopter and Rafale fighter jets.
French forces in Niger
French MQ-9 Reaper Drones in Niger
No other region has his much concentration of French and American arsenal. We talking squadrons of fighter jets, the deadliest and most sophisticated drones in the world, over 5,000 troops, hundreds of amoured vehicles....all kilometres from Nigeria
Yet Boko Haram manages to have training camp's in these countries. They have operational bases in these same countries. Weapons are smuggled into Nigeria without detection. ISIS manages to traverse the Sahel down to Nigeria..all without detection.
We talking about the most sophisticated surveillance assets in the world in six countries that stretches from Cameroon in Central Africa to Niger, Chad and Mali.
So this begs the question. How is Boko Haram able to operate wirh impunity? How can they not k is about the existence of Boko Haram camps in Niger and Chad? How is that even remotely possible? Why do they refuse to share Intel with Nigeria
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