MQ-9 flights from Ethiopia have ceased

Since 2011, U.S. MQ-9s have been operating out of an airport in Arba Minch, Ethiopia. A U.S. Embassy spokesman told The Associated Press by email that Washington has shut down the drone operations in the country.

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By U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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