Rwanda chosen for world's first 'drone-port' to deliver medical supplies

British architect Norman Foster proposes drones which would fly from three ports from 2020, delivering 'precious supplies to remote areas'

It sounds like science fiction: unmanned drones carrying emergency medicine zooming above the rolling hills of Rwanda.

But there are proposals - including one by the eminent British architect Norman Foster - to set up "cargo drone routes capable of delivering urgent and precious supplies to remote areas on a massive scale", and the East African nation of Rwanda has been chosen as a test case.