Djibouti

Horndiplomat-Speaking at the closing session of the three- day meeting of Djiboutian Ambassadors and high level diplomats today (December 20), President Ismail Omar Guelleh praised Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for his deep-seated commitments and considerable success he has forged towards ensuring peace...

By: Developing Telecoms Ciena, a networking systems, services and software company, says it is working with Djibouti Telecom to increase digitisation in the East Africa region by deploying Ciena’s GeoMesh Extreme solution to upgrade one of Djibouti Telecom’s submarine cable systems. As part of a consortium...

BEIJING — A senior Chinese officer has met Djibouti's military chief-of-staff in Beijing and thanked him for supporting China's construction of a military base in the Horn of Africa country, the second such high-level meeting in a month. Djibouti's position on the northwestern edge of the...

The two presidents discussed regional issues of mutual interest and Al-Sisi praised Djibouti's role in attempting to achieve stability. Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with his Djiboutian counterpart Ismaïl Omar Guelleh in Cairo on Monday. The two presidents signed several agreements and memorandums of...

By: MoDUALE Djibouti on Wednesday reported 229 new COVID__19 cases and four more deaths, taking the total number of cases in the country to 2,697. Djibouti has conducted a total of 24,129 COVID-19 tests so far with 18 deaths and 1185 recoveries. According to the Djibouti Health...

Bags of wheat speed down multiple conveyor belts to be heaved onto trucks lined up during the middle of a blistering June afternoon beside the busy docks of Djibouti Port. Once loaded, trucks set off westward toward Ethiopia carrying food aid to help with...

Djibouti based investors have made a three days investment visits to Ethiopia in a bid to best exploit and add value to the untapped massive livestock resource of the East African nation, says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The investors held several discussions with...

By:Anadolu Turkey's state-run aid agency has distributed a total of 200 wheelchairs and vocational supplies to disabled people in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, according to a statement on Monday. The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) launched its "End the Barriers" project in...

The African Union is sending its security commissioner to Eritrea to help resolve its border dispute with Djibouti following the withdrawal of Qatari peacekeepers from the area, AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat said yesterday. “I’ve sent a mission to Djibouti and now have made...

BY VARALAKSHMI VEMURU Worldbank:In the context of the upcoming UN High Level Meeting on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, this blog offers a field-level perspective from Djibouti on refugee and migrant movements. To prepare theDevelopment Response to Displacement Impacts Project, I visited the Ali...