The military of Djibouti is officially referred to as the Djibouti Armed Forces ( Forces Armees Djiboutiennes, FAD ).

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In October 2002, the Combined Task Force 150 and United States military Special Forces established themselves in Djibouti at Camp Lemonnier.

The countries with coastlines on the Arabian Sea are Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Pakistan, India and the Maldives.

There are two official languages in Djibouti: Arabic ( Afro-Asiatic ) and French ( Indo-European ).

There are some 2, 600 French troops, which includes a unit of the French Foreign Legion, the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade, stationed in Djibouti.

The facilities of the Port of Djibouti are important to sea transportation companies for fuel bunkering and refuelling.

France's 5e RIAOM are currently stationed in Djibouti.

Currently, approximately 170 soldiers of the JGSDF and the JMSDF are currently stationed in Djibouti, with their base and naval port recently opening in July 2011.

JSDF soldiers are based in the " Japanese Facility for Counter-Piracy Mission in Djibouti.

" and are planned to be based in Djibouti for 10 years as a relay station for any JSDF deployment in East Africa.

Foreign relations with the government of Djibouti are maintained by the Djiboutian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

Djibouti is greatly affected by events in Somalia and Ethiopia, and therefore relations are important and, at times, very delicate.

In Djibouti, there are about 480, 000 group members, and in Ethiopia, they number approximately 1, 300, 000.

International systems are open wire to Sudan and Djibouti ; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean ).

* At present the railway is under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia, but negotiations are underway to privatize this transport utility.

On the other hand, relations with her other neighboring states, Djibouti and Kenya, are satisfactory.

Somalia, Djibouti, Comoros and Mauritania are geographically part of Sub-Saharan Africa, but also part of the Arab world.

Relations between Yemen and Djibouti are good, and cooperation takes place on many levels.

( These five areas are British Somaliland ( Somalia ), Italian Somaliland ( Somalia ), French Somaliland ( Djibouti ), the Ogaden, and the Northern Frontier District.

" Pancakes " in the Horn of Africa region ( Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia ) are known as injera ( sometimes transliterated enjera ; Oromo: budenaa ; Somali: canjeero ).

As with many other aspects of Ethiopian culture and tradition, tastes in music and lyrics are strongly linked with those in neighboring Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti and Sudan.

All African camels are dromedaries, of which 84 % occur in Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Kenya, which constitutes 60. 1 % of the world's whole camel population.

Due to its strategic location at the mouth of the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, Djibouti also hosts various foreign military bases.

France maintains one of its largest military bases outside France in Djibouti.

Djibouti has been the host country for French military units since independence.

Djibouti has allowed the U. S. military, as well as other nations, access to its port and airport facilities.

In 2002, Djibouti agreed to host a U. S. military presence at Camp Lemonnier, a former French Foreign Legion base outside the capital that now houses approximately 3, 500 American personnel.

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Djibouti joined the Global War on Terror, and now hosts a large military camp, home to soldiers from many countries, but primarily the U. S.

In May 2010, Turkey and the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia also signed a military training agreement, in keeping with the provisions outlined in the Djibouti Peace Process.

Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.

In January 2006, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 11 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia were in danger of starvation due to the combination of severe drought and military conflicts.

Djibouti uses this weapon in its military as the standard infantry weapon.

He died on 12 September 2004 at a French military hospital in Djibouti.

The coup attempt was stopped by the army ; he fled to a French military base but was turned over to Djibouti authorities on December 9.

Although the United States no longer has any possessions further west than Guam or further east than the Virgin Islands, it currently has military presence in Afghanistan, Bahrain, Brazil, the British Indian Ocean Territory, Bulgaria, Cuba, Djibouti, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and others.

* Abu Ali al-Harithi, shot in Yemen with six others by a Predator drone commanded from Langley and based at CJTF-HOA, hosted at a French military base in Djibouti

Djibouti has its own armed forces, including a small army, which has grown significantly since the start of the civil war.

In 2008, the countries clashed again when Djibouti refused to return Eritrean deserters and Eritrea responded by firing at the Djiboutian forces.

CJTF-HOA has devoted the majority of its efforts to train selected armed forces units of the countries of Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency tactics.

It includes the Djibouti National Army, which consists of the Coastal Navy, the Djiboutian Air Force ( Force Aerienne Djiboutienne, FAD ), and the National Gendarmerie ( GN ).

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* National Democratic Party ( Djibouti )

The National Democratic Party (), () is a political party in Djibouti.

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Category: Members of the National Assembly of Djibouti

Djibouti elects both the President and the unicameral National Assembly ( Assemblée Nationale ) at the national level.

The National Assembly ( formerly the Chamber of Deputies ) is the unicameral legislative branch of the government of Djibouti.