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I Have a Drone: the Implications of American Drone Policy for Africa and International Humanitarian Law

I Have a Drone: the Implications of American Drone Policy for Africa and International... ADEDOKUN OGUNFOLU and OLUDAYO FAGBEMI I. INTRODUCTION Placards that bore Martin Luther King's pictures captioned with his `I have a dream' cliché juxtaposed and parodied with placards bearing Barack Hussein Obama's pictures captioned `' welcomed the re-elected American president to Germany in June 2013. 1 This was in sharp contrast to the pop-star cult status Senator Obama the presidential candidate received during his 2008 German visit.2 The most prominent signature attribute of the Obama presidency in warfare is the use of drones.3 The Obama drone doctrine keeps American boots off the ground and unmanned drones rain death on suspected American enemies.4 It has also eroded the promise candidate Obama made in 2008 to restore America's reputation abroad.5 The Obama administration appropriated $5 billion on drones under the 2012 budget and America now trains lesser conventional pilots than the (MPHIL (Ife), Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; postdoctoral fellow, (Cornell University Law School). ((LLB (Ife), LLM (UCL), BL, Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Rivers State Ministry of Justice, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 1 M. Steininger, `In Return to Berlin, Obama Finds a Cooler Germany', Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2013, available at: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png African Journal of International and Comparative Law Edinburgh University Press

I Have a Drone: the Implications of American Drone Policy for Africa and International Humanitarian Law

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Edinburgh University Press
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ADEDOKUN OGUNFOLU and OLUDAYO FAGBEMI I. INTRODUCTION Placards that bore Martin Luther King's pictures captioned with his `I have a dream' cliché juxtaposed and parodied with placards bearing Barack Hussein Obama's pictures captioned `' welcomed the re-elected American president to Germany in June 2013. 1 This was in sharp contrast to the pop-star cult status Senator Obama the presidential candidate received during his 2008 German visit.2 The most prominent signature attribute of the Obama presidency in warfare is the use of drones.3 The Obama drone doctrine keeps American boots off the ground and unmanned drones rain death on suspected American enemies.4 It has also eroded the promise candidate Obama made in 2008 to restore America's reputation abroad.5 The Obama administration appropriated $5 billion on drones under the 2012 budget and America now trains lesser conventional pilots than the (MPHIL (Ife), Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria; postdoctoral fellow, (Cornell University Law School). ((LLB (Ife), LLM (UCL), BL, Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, Rivers State Ministry of Justice, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 1 M. Steininger, `In Return to Berlin, Obama Finds a Cooler Germany', Christian Science Monitor, 19 June 2013, available at:

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African Journal of International and Comparative Law – Edinburgh University Press

Published: Feb 1, 2015

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