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Despite hosting China’s largest overseas military base, Africa’s military hub holds latest exercise with US, France and 3 other nations without Beijing

Business Insider AfricaSolomon Ekanem · 8 November 2026 at 14:16

Africa's most strategic military hub, Djibouti has joined the United States, France, Japan, Italy and Spain in a multinational military exercise that highlights its growing importance to global security and the strategic competition between Washington and Beijing.

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