France's defence ministry says it carried out its first armed drone strike, killing seven militants in central Mali over the weekend
A soldier of the French Army adjusts the coordinates of a mortar ready to be used to defend them at a Temporary Operative Advanced Base during the Bourgou IV operation in Northern Burkina Faso on November 10, 2019. For two weeks in early November, soldiers of the French Army set up a Temporary Operative Advanced Base every evening during the Bourgou IV operation, in the area of the three borders between Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
A defence ministry statement said the drone strike took place Saturday while French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting neighbouring Ivory Coast, where France has a military base. Macron already had announced that French forces had killed 33 militants that day. The French military successfully tested its weaponised Reaper drone for the first time last week, and Defense Minister Florence Parly called the drones “protectors for our troops and effective against the enemy."
The use of armed drones has been somewhat sensitive in France, notably because of civilians killed by US drones in Afghanistan and Somalia.
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