Djibouti

The Red Sea strategy: What does Israel stand to gain from recognizing Somaliland? - analysis

Some may see it as creating a new era of international competition in the Horn of Africa - but the real issue is it may appear more of a strategic chessboard than it is.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Somalis react after Israel became the first country to formally recognise the self-declared Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state, in Mogadishu, Somalia, December 27, 2025
LIBYAN MILITARY commander Khalifa Haftar (left) walks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo in April 2019.

Egypt is slowly building up its strategic relationships

Egypt's president is expected to meet Djibouti's president, and planes of humanitarian aid are also coming from Egypt.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh is seen at the opening of the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and the Government of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 9, 2020

Djibouti: Ties with Israel only after peace gesture to Palestinians

"We take issue with the Israeli government because they’re denying Palestinians their inalienable rights."

|ByLAHAV HARKOV
Soldiers of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) salute from a ship sailing off from a military port in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, July 11

China to set up first military base on foreign soil

Fleet setting sail Wednesday to plant army compound in Djibouti, move raising concerns among rivals.

|ByREUTERS