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DJIBOUTI, November 15 2026 – Ninety-one Djiboutian soldiers, including 23 women, received their stripes and certificates on Saturday after completing four year-long specialist courses, mostly in armoured vehicles, the state news agency ADI reported.
Three of the four courses focused on armoured units, training soldiers in gunnery, driving reconnaissance vehicles and operating wheeled armoured cannon vehicles. The fourth was in military music.
The pass rate was 99%, ADI said.
The ceremony at Camp Cheikh Osman, which marked the end of the 2025-2026 academic year, was presided over by the chief of general staff of the armed forces, Lieutenant General Zakaria Cheikh Ibrahim, who handed graduates their stripes and certificates.
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The top three graduates named were Private Amin Abdallah Gouro, with an average of 17.05 out of 20, Master Corporal Lourman Houssein Robleh, with 16.59, and Corporal Fatouma Youssouf Ahmed, with 16.48, according to results broadcast by state media.
“Keep in mind that obtaining your certificate is not an end in itself, but the beginning of a new responsibility,” Colonel Mohamed Jama Rayaleh, the army’s director of human resources, told the graduates.
The general staff said the courses were intended to strengthen the technical and professional skills of personnel and boost the operational capacity of the Djiboutian Armed Forces.
Djibouti’s armed forces are made up of the army, navy, air force and gendarmerie.