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The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War
The airstrip sits next to giant crop circles at the edge of the Sahara. Military drones take off over enormous fields of wheat, leaving their covert base for one of the world’s biggest drone wars. The base is in Egypt, hidden amid a vast, agricultural project in the country’s Western desert. But the targets are in Sudan. The clandestine drone operation offers new evidence of how the civil war in Sudan — racked by famine, atrocities and tens of t…
A New York Times investigation has revealed that the Sudanese military is using a secret facility at the heart of an agricultural project to attack the rebels. Egypt's president hinted at his intervention after a strategic city fell last year after a brutal siege. The rebels, who are backed by the Emirates, threatened: "Any drone anywhere is a legitimate target."
Located at the desert borders of the border with the Sudan, this base allows Cairo to directly support the Sudanese armed forces in their war against the Quick Support Forces. The Sudanese internal conflict is regionalized, fueled by the divergent interests of other countries.
London: In a report by Declan Walsh, Malachi Brown, Eric Schmidt and Nick Kaming-Ros, the New York Times revealed a secret military base in Egypt that is working on the war equation in the Sudan between the armed forces and the rebel militia, the Rapid Support Forces. They said that the military base provides new evidence of the manner in which the Sudanese conflict is developing [...]
Khartoum – Darfur24: The New York Times, in an extensive investigation, revealed the existence of a secret airbase in Egypt's Western Desert used to launch advanced Turkish drones toward targets inside Sudan. The investigation, which relied on satellite imagery, flight logs, and video footage, showed that the Bayraktar Akinci drones began operating since... [The post "Investigation Reveals Secret Egyptian Airbase Behind Drone Strikes in Sudan" a…
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