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Central African Republic, Mali
United Nations ramp up use of intelligence drones across peacekeeping missions

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The new head of the MINUSMA forces Lieutenant General Cornelis Johannes Matthijssen.
The new head of the MINUSMA forces Lieutenant General Cornelis Johannes Matthijssen. © United nations

In Mali, as in the Central African Republic, UN peacekeeping missions are increasingly reaching out to private contractors to hire drones to boost their intelligence capabilities, in a move backed at the highest level in New York.

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