How manyU.S. troopsare there in Niger? About 800, but the vast majority of them are construction crews working to build up a second drone base in Niger’s northern desert. The rest run a surveillance drone mission from Niger’s capital of Niamey that helps out the French in Mali and o...
The U.S. has roughly 800 military personnel temporarily deployed to Niger, and rough 6,000 military personnel spread across the continent, according to U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). Many of those troops are there to support African partners, alongside allies like France, with the goal of i...
Macon Hawkins, a US oil worker held hostage by militants in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 2006. At the time kidnappings of foreign workers were common in the area. The latest wave of abductions is seeing people snatched across the country© George Osodi/AP Smaller mass kidnappings ...
Western powers that previously invested in trying to beat back the jihadists have very little capacity left on the ground, especially since the junta in Niger last year ordered the US to leave a sprawling desert drone base in Agadez. US troops and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used dr...
Were there others off-course legend said so there was Sir Morien who may yet turned out to be the kind of aboriginal Black European you are hunting down as far as I know there was no precise location of any home out side Europe, but not so for St Maurice the Theban.Morien is the ...
And, although Gallup does not ask about political affiliation in its World Poll, there was also a strong relationship between stress, worry and disapproval of the job that President Donald Trump is doing. Those who disapprove of Trump's job performance are significantly more likely to experience...
There are lots of former employees as Sony laid off over a thousand people in the US last year and large numbers in other parts of the world. Norse and a lot of other people suggest the hack was an inside job. How realistic is that theory? I contacted a former hacker to get his opi...
career and adapting to a new country – he has no regrets. ‘‘It has been hard,’’ he said. “But at least it feels like there’s some direction. There’s some structure. There are so many little fears that hold you down in Nigeria that I no longer feel, and that has made jap...