Djibouti News

Djibouti's port complex is several facilities rather than one, and each serves a different segment of the corridor.

11 Aug 2026·5 min read

The same geography that makes the country a shipping chokepoint makes it a landing point for submarine cable.

11 Aug 2026·5 min read

Corridor projects across the Horn aim to cut the cost of moving goods between the highlands and the coast, where transport costs remain the largest single component of landed price.

11 Aug 2026·6 min read

A narrow strait at the bottom of the Red Sea shapes the economics and the security policy of all four countries in the Horn. Here is how.

11 Aug 2026·8 min read

Air links matter disproportionately for a small state whose economy is built on being a connection point.

10 Aug 2026·4 min read

Every serious question in Horn diplomacy now runs through one problem: how a country of more than a hundred and twenty million reaches the sea.

10 Aug 2026·9 min read

A generation trained abroad is returning to build the systems the region runs on.

9 Aug 2026·6 min read

The free zone is the mechanism by which a transit country tries to become a destination.

9 Aug 2026·4 min read

One of the world's busiest irregular migration corridors runs from the Horn toward the Gulf, and much of it passes through northern Djibouti.

8 Aug 2026·5 min read

Rainfall failure does not respect borders, and neither does the displacement that follows it.

8 Aug 2026·6 min read

Cross-border commerce in the Horn has long been organised by women. It rarely appears in trade statistics.

7 Aug 2026·5 min read