"Our role is changing in Africa because the world is changing ... AFP in an interview that France should close its military bases there. Djibouti has in the past been part of France's Indo-Pacific ...

Undersea telecom cables run to Djibouti for the same reason that eight big powers came here to put up military bases – the ...

Trump's administration has warned that there could be "serious consequences" regarding Russia's plan to build a naval base in ...

Russian plans for a naval base in Sudan to secure a foreign port are alarming the U.S. and risking new tensions with Moscow ...

In 2002, Djibouti became home to the only permanent US military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier. Just three months after 9/11, the US facility was established in the area due to the recognition of ...

Djibouti, the former French territory in the Horn of Africa across from the Arabian Peninsula, is the site of the last significant French military base on the continent and, in fact, the largest ...

Though each crisis is driven by different, home-grown causes, “the question of who controls the Red Sea and who will ...

Navy commander Shen Jinlong “read an order on constructing the base in Djibouti”, but agency Xinhua did not say when the base would begin operations. Ships carrying personnel for China's first ...

The United States has the widest network of military bases in the Asian region as part of its "forward deployment" strategy.