From Strategic Asset to Regional Fault Line - Djibouti At Crossroads of Red Sea Power Struggle

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- For three decades, Djibouti's political economy rested on a simple model: Ethiopia needed Djibouti's ports, and Djibouti needed Ethiopia's trade. Around that relationship, President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh's government built a model based on ports, foreign military bases, strategic infrastructure, and external financing. That arrangement transformed one of Africa's smallest states into one of its most strategically important.