A U.S. Army Soldier assigned to Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) looks at his French Desert Commando Course pin after the graduation ceremony near Ali Sabieh, Djibouti ...

Ali Omar remembers a time when the practically bare patch of desert in northern Djibouti he calls home was a bustling seaside resort and the waters around it were teeming with fish. "Lots of ...

Sgt. Liliana Munday worked out three times a day to prepare for the French Desert Commando course in the rugged mountains of Djibouti. Munday was one of 40 U.S. service members who signed up for ...

Troops from China’s only overseas military base have conducted another round of live-fire drills – exercises that analysts say could become more regular and advanced in the future. The drills ...

For the migrants in the desert there is a solitary ambulance In Djibouti Amina made her way to the coast – it was the first time she had ever seen the sea – and tracked down her husband.

The desert plain between the Gulf of Aden and the Mabla Mountains, in northern Djibouti, is a rutted landscape of ochre sand and rocks, dotted with gnarled acacia trees. In summer, it is swept by ...

A new train from the Ethiopian capital to the Djibouti coast offers a desert journey into parts of East Africa that have been off the tourist track. Lebu Station, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa ...

For years, French forces have routinely invited U.S. service members to participate in the French Desert Commando Course in Djibouti. During Task Force Iron Gray’s deployment to the Horn of ...

Back to U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa For nearly 50 years, French soldiers stationed in Djibouti have made their way to Arta Mountains for the French Desert Commando course ...

A small country of barren mountains and desert, Djibouti is on the strait of Bab-el-Mandeb on the north-east edge of Africa. This is where 30 per cent of the world’s shipping passes through a ...

Completely isolated and cut off from communication networks, the Ali Addeh refugee camp slumbers in Djibouti’s desert. Near the borders of Ethiopia and Somalia, this is a place of continual ...