This drone manufacturer wants to protect Africa’s power, mining and oil assets

Attacks on Africa’s critical infrastructure are not uncommon. This year, insurgent militant groups led to a temporary shutdown of a tin mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo and fighting in Sudan’s civil war caused a blaze at the country’s largest oil refinery .

Disruptions like these not only threaten local economies but can set back the whole continent, discouraging foreign investments that many large infrastructure projects depend on.

“These are critical attacks carried out on strategic infrastructure which directly impact on economic development,” Oluwole Ojewale, regional coordinator for Central Africa at the Institute for Security Studies, tells CNN. He notes the example of Nigeria, where terrorist attacks on oil pipelines have been a factor in stopping the country from meet