A Malian Army soldier with the G5 Sahel, an institutional framework for coordination of regional cooperation in development policies and security matters in West Africa, stands at the entrance of a G5 Sahel command post in Sevare on May 30, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SEBASTIEN RIEUSSEC
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UniversG5 – Sahel
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G5 – Sahel

The antiterrorist forces equip themselves with Chinese drones

Global Watch Analysis
Global Watch Analysis
UniversG5 – Sahel
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The G5 – Sahel antiterrorist forces, which have assembled troops from the armies of five countries from the Sahel-Sahara strip (Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso), has just become equipped with Chinese drones manufactured by the Poly Technologies company.

This public Chinese group which specialises in state-of-the-art technologies, civilian and military, is increasingly active in western Africa and Nigeria.