Djibouti

Coordinates: 11°30′N 43°00′E / 11.500°N 43.000°E / 11.500; 43.000

Djibouti (/ɪˈbti/ ji-BOO-tee; Arabic: جيبوتي Jībūtī, French: Djibouti, Somali: Jabuuti, Afar: Gabuuti), officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somaliland in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east. Djibouti occupies a total area of just 23,200 km2 (8,958 sq mi).

In antiquity, the territory was part of the Land of Punt. Nearby Zeila (now in Somaliland) was the seat of the medieval Adal and Ifat Sultanates. In the late 19th century, the colony of French Somaliland was established following treaties signed by the ruling Somali and Afar sultans with the French and its railroad to Dire Dawa (and later Addis Ababa) allowed it to quickly supersede Zeila as the port for southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden. It was subsequently renamed to the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas in 1967. A decade later, the Djiboutian people voted for independence. This officially marked the establishment of the Republic of Djibouti, named after its capital city. Djibouti joined the United Nations the same year, on September 20, 1977. In the early 1990s, tensions over government representation led to armed conflict, which ended in a power sharing agreement in 2000 between the ruling party and the opposition.

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Houthis target MSC ship in Gulf of Aden

LBC International 26 Apr 2024
The Houthis also fired a number of ballistic and winged missiles at several targets in Israel's port city of Eilat, the group's ... The Liberian-flagged MSC Darwin VI ship was in the area of the attack, traveling between the ports of Aden and Djibouti, according to Refinitiv data....
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Yemen’s Houthis launch attacks on US, Israeli vessels as warships defend

Al Jazeera 25 Apr 2024
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi armed group says it attacked US and Israeli vessels, with a Western coalition of warships defending amid the continuing fallout from the war on Gaza ... The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) had earlier confirmed an incident some 72 nautical miles (133km) southeast of the port of Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden ... ....
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Palace Museum exhibitions show civilizations don't necessarily clash

China Daily 25 Apr 2024
The modernization of ports (including Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Islamic Port and the United Arab Emirates' Jebel Ali Port in Dubai) has boosted trade and improved logistics for supply chains ... The Doraleh Multipurpose Port, a major Belt and Road development project in Djibouti, is serving as a new gateway from the Middle East to Africa ... ....
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British authority receives notice of incident off the coast of Djibouti

LBC International 24 Apr 2024
... of an incident 72 nautical miles southeast of Djibouti's port....
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British announcement of targeting a new ship near Aden

Al Thawra 24 Apr 2024
... a new ship 72 nautical miles southeast of the port of Djibouti....
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First Red Sea Explosion Reported After Houthis Vow to Resume Attacks

The Maritime Executive 24 Apr 2024
Security services received reports of an explosion near an unidentified vessel today in the Red Sea ... Details were vague on today’s incident with the UK Maritime Trade Organization issuing only brief details. They received a report from a vessel of an explosion in the water approximately 72 nautical miles southeast of the port of Djibouti ... U.S....
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Houthis Target Maersk and MSC Vessels as They Vow to Renew Attacks

The Maritime Executive 24 Apr 2024
Security services received reports of an explosion near an unidentified vessel today in the Red Sea ... Details were vague on today’s incident with the UK Maritime Trade Organization issuing only brief details. They received a report from a vessel of an explosion in the water approximately 72 nautical miles southeast of the port of Djibouti ... U.S....
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Maldives must reset China relations

Taipei Times 23 Apr 2024
This strategy involves protecting these routes and bolstering regional influence through the development of port infrastructure and logistics centers ... just a handful of ports ... Djibouti, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and now the Maldives — are all part of this threefold strategy....
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Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway earns $50M in 9 months

China.dot.org 18 Apr 2024
He also said the EDR's revenue and passenger figures showed an increase, overcoming challenges such as the ongoing security crisis in the Red Sea region and recent floods that affected Djibouti Port ... Ethiopia to ports in the Red Sea country of Djibouti....
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Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway earns 50 mln USD in 9 months

People Daily 18 Apr 2024
He also said the EDR's revenue and passenger figures showed an increase, overcoming challenges such as the ongoing security crisis in the Red Sea region and recent floods that affected Djibouti Port ... 2018, connecting landlocked Ethiopia to ports in the Red Sea country of Djibouti....
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Opinion| Ethiopia at the Precipice: A Nation on the Edge of Ethnic Conflagration Like Yugoslavia

Daily News Egypt 17 Apr 2024
The land sits along the highway between Addis Ababa, Djibouti, and the Assab port in Eritrea ... Ethiopia’s unbridled appetite for a port is not going away, but it was his famous “We must get a seaport even if we have to use force” that made Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea wary of the madman Abiy Ahmed....
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