Setting up the first German embassy in Djibouti. Germany's army presence is there to "protect its foreign trade interests" as well as part of its EU's Operation Atalanta. Future German ambassador Jorg Kinnen (blue shirt) and retired ambassador Manfred Dohmeyer working on setting up the first German embassy in Djibouti, at their temporary office: a room at the Sheraton hotel...The geostrategical and geopolitical importance of the Republic of Djibouti, located on the Horn of Africa, by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
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