U.S. Seeks Drone Bases in Coastal West Africa to Stem Islamist Advance – WSJ – The Wall Street Journal

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NAIROBI—The U.S. is seeking to base military drones along the West African coast in an urgent effort to stop the spread of al Qaeda and Islamic State in the region, according to American and African officials.
The U.S. is holding preliminary talks to allow American unarmed reconnaissance drones to use airfields in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Benin, countries on the Atlantic Ocean. Relatively stable and prosperous, the three coastal countries, along with Togo, now find themselves threatened by Islamist militants surging south from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger—three

beleaguered nations in the Sahel, the semidesert band south of the Sahara.
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