AFRICA · DEFENCE & SECURITY
Key Facts
—Wide reach: Turkey’s Bayraktar TB2 is now flown by about 11 African states, with roughly 143 units recorded, according to defence trackers cited by Small Wars Journal.
—Long client list: Baykar counts Angola, Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Togo and Tunisia among its African buyers.
—Rapid build-up: More than half of all recorded African drone purchases fall in the five years to 2026, the fastest militarisation of its kind on the continent.
