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North of Djibouti town, in the desert, the French Foreign Legion (the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade) is building a Forward Operating Base, as part of an excercice on guerilla war, in an environment very similar to the one encountered, for example, in Afghanistan...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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North of Djibouti town, in the desert, the French Foreign Legion (the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade) is building a Forward Operating Base, as part of an excercice on guerilla war, in an environment very similar to the one encountered, for example, in Afghanistan...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.