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The most populous country in the Horn and the second most populous in Africa. Landlocked since Eritrean independence in 1993, Ethiopia routes the overwhelming majority of its foreign trade through Djibouti. Addis Ababa hosts the headquarters of the African Union.
Regions of Ethiopia
The expansion targets container and bulk capacity on the corridor that carries the overwhelming majority of Ethiopian foreign trade.
Sectors closed to foreign participation for decades are being opened in stages, as Addis Ababa pursues foreign exchange.
Headline growth has stayed high for two decades. The harder questions are inflation, foreign exchange and debt.
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.
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.
Sub-Saharan Africa's first light rail system faces the maintenance problem common to every transit network of its age.
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.
A generation trained abroad is returning to build the systems the region runs on.
The 2022 agreement ended the fighting. Implementation has been slower than the text envisaged.
A timeline of the relationship that has done more than any other to shape the modern Horn.
One of the world's busiest irregular migration corridors runs from the Horn toward the Gulf, and much of it passes through northern Djibouti.
