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01 of 12Japanese soldier on guard at the Counter-Piracy Enforcement base of the Japan Self-Defence Forces
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02 of 12 Japan Self-Defence Forces’s Lt Col Hirotsugu Awamoto, a medical officer at the Japanese base
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03 of 12Airforce captain and commanding officer of the counter-piracy mission’s air-support unit Masahisa Motomura beneath the flags of Djibouti and Japan
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04 of 12Squadron and regimental badges adorn a wall in the office of the EU mission commander
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05 of 12Maj Victor Sobrino of the Spanish airforce climbs into a Vigma patrol plane
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06 of 12Spanish airforce personnel from the EU's country-piracy mission inside the Vigma
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07 of 12Spanish Vigma console operator Julian Algar Villaba, a regular on the mission’s eight-hour patrols over the Indian Ocean
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08 of 12Spanish airforce personnel from the EU mission show off their Vigma patrol plane on the Djibouti base airfield
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09 of 12EU mission badge reflects its full title and the source of regional instability: Countering Piracy off the Coast of Somalia and Djibouti
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10 of 12Empty transport crates piled up in Riyad Market indicate how vital imported produce is to life in Djibouti
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11 of 12US planes on the airfield
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12 of 12Djibouti from the air
