{"id":173994,"date":"2024-06-06T12:43:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/somalia-somaliland-needs-to-rethink-strategy-amid-djiboutis-growing-hostility\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:43:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:43:43","slug":"somalia-somaliland-needs-to-rethink-strategy-amid-djiboutis-growing-hostility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/somalia-somaliland-needs-to-rethink-strategy-amid-djiboutis-growing-hostility\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia: Somaliland Needs to Rethink Strategy Amid Djibouti&#8217;s Growing Hostility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The relationship between Djibouti and Somaliland has long been contentious, with Djibouti displaying consistent hostility towards its neighbour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">This hostility stems from two primary factors: fear of economic competition and Djibouti&#8217;s regional defense strategies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Transport Global Practice the Container Port Performance Index 2022&#8221; ranks Berbera port second in Sub-Saharan Africa for performance, based on vessel time in ports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">This development has heightened Djibouti&#8217;s fears, as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406060008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship between Djibouti and Somaliland has long been contentious, with Djibouti displaying consistent hostility towards its neighbour. This hostility stems from two primary factors: fear of economic competition and Djibouti&#8217;s regional defense strategies. The World Bank&#8217;s &#8220;Transport Global Practice the Container Port Performance Index 2022&#8221; ranks Berbera port second in Sub-Saharan Africa for performance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":173995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,568,7235,10778,26358,257,26086,4690,869,254,6986],"class_list":["post-173994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti-news","tag-growing","tag-hostility","tag-news","tag-rethink","tag-somalia","tag-somaliland","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}