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Germany to send 600 troops for training in Djibout

GERMANY is to send 600 troops to Djibouti in January in the first deployment of a training mission which could also serve as a base for keeping a watch on neighbouring Somalia, sources said.

The first troops, who will be charged with setting up a headquarters, are expected in the early New Year, said diplomatic sources speaking anonymously.

They say that the German forces in Djibouti, which already has the largest French deployment of troops in Africa, will be deployed under an agreement signed on December 3 during a visit by a German naval captain, and could be in the country for six months to a year.
A political analyst, who did not want to be named, said the German troops, "could also be used to keep a better watch on Somalia in the context of the fight against terrorism."

Djbouti, in the Horn of Africa, shares a border with Somalia.
German naval sources have said that five German warships are due to leave the port of Wilhelmshaven on January 2 for the Horn of Africa in the context of the fight against terrorism.

At the time of the announcement, on December 21, the German naval directorate said their mission was to "guarantee the security and freedom of circulation of shipping lanes and if necessary block access for terrorist organisations."

US and British warships have been on station in the Red Sea for several weeks, boarding boats leaving and heading for Somalia and checking the identity of passengers, according to sources in the region.

The US suspects that Somalia, which has been ravaged by a civil war between rival warlords for over 10 years, may be sheltering members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network which has links with the Somali al-Ittihad al-Islamiya fundamentalist organisation.
Coalition forces are equally concerned that al-Qaeda forces fleeing Afghanistan do not find refuge in Somalia. - AFP



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