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The French forces in Djibouti (FFDj) (French: Les forces françaises stationnées à Djibouti, lit. 'The French forces stationed in Djibouti') is a French overseas military base. It constitutes one of the larger French military contingents outside France.
The maintenance of overseas military bases enable the French Armed Forces to conduct expeditionary warfare, and often tend to be located in areas of strategic or diplomatic importance. In the French terminology, the "prepositioned forces" consist of the "sovereignty forces" based in the Overseas France and the "forces of presence" based abroad.
Air Base name Base Aerienne French title Location Notes Al Dhafra Air Base: BA 104 Base aérienne 104 Al Dhafra: Abu Dhabi: Dakar-Ouakam Air Base: BA 160 Base aérienne 160 Dakar – Ouakam: Senegal: Djibouti Air Base: BA 188 Base aérienne 188 Djibouti "Colonel Massart" Djibouti: Eléments français d'assistance opérationnelle à N'Djamena ...
In November 2024, the special politician for French operations in Africa, Jean-Marie Bockel, submitted a report to President Emmanuel Macron on the reconfiguration of France's African military presence, advocating a "renewed" and "rebuilt" partnership. France plans to reduce the pre-positioned forces it has on its military bases.
The base is used to support military operations against Boko Haram. [100] Approximately 200 personnel work at the site. Djibouti: Camp Lemonnier, CSL Chabelley: Camp Lemonnier is the largest U.S. base in Africa with more than 4,000 military personnel. [101] Kenya: Camp Simba: Second largest U.S. base in Africa.
Camp de la Paix ("Peace Camp"), also called Abu Dhabi Base and known and referred to by the French military as Implantation militaire française aux Émirats arabes unis ("French Military Settlement in UAE") or simply IMFEAU, is a French Naval Air Station based in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, since 2009.
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USAF air base siting in the former French protectorate in Morocco developed out of the Allied presence there at the close of World War II.In the early 1950s, SAC developed an "Operation Reflex" strategy between its southern bases and Morocco, with B-36 and B-47 wings rotating to North Africa for extended temporary duty as a staging area for bombers pointed at the Soviet Union.