Horn of Africa
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The expansion targets container and bulk capacity on the corridor that carries the overwhelming majority of Ethiopian foreign trade.
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.
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.
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.
Rainfall failure does not respect borders, and neither does the displacement that follows it.
Cross-border commerce in the Horn has long been organised by women. It rarely appears in trade statistics.
The Horn's own regional body has mediated some of Africa's hardest conflicts. Its structural weakness is that its members are frequently parties to them.
Terminal investment has made Berbera a serious port. Its political status keeps its commercial future unsettled.
