Joshua Hammer

Joshua Hammer, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, is the author of the forthcoming "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu."

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Drone WarsThe U.S. Extends Its Drone War Deeper Into Africa With Secretive Base

Joshua Hammer — February 25 2016

In Cameroon, American soldiers are launching drones from a little-known base near the Nigerian border. The surveillance flights bring the U.S. closer to the brutal ground war against Boko Haram.

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