{"id":179820,"date":"2024-09-03T16:19:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T14:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-rising-tensions-as-djibouti-faces-economic-strain-somaliland-stands-firm\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T14:19:26","slug":"djibouti-rising-tensions-as-djibouti-faces-economic-strain-somaliland-stands-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-rising-tensions-as-djibouti-faces-economic-strain-somaliland-stands-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti: Rising Tensions As Djibouti Faces Economic Strain, Somaliland Stands Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Djibouti regime is facing increasing challenges, with economic pressures mounting and a growing sense of insecurity taking hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The rise of Berbera port in Somaliland as a significant competitor has highlighted the vulnerabilities in Djibouti&#8217;s economic model, which has heavily relied on its port sector and Ethiopian trade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Djibouti&#8217;s external public debt has surged from 33.9 percent of GDP in 2013 to 68 percent in 2022, driven largely by loan-financed investments in state-owned enterprises,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409030011.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 Djibouti regime is facing increasing challenges, with economic pressures mounting and a growing sense of insecurity taking hold. The rise of Berbera port in Somaliland as a significant competitor has highlighted the vulnerabilities in Djibouti&#8217;s economic model, which has heavily relied on its port sector and Ethiopian trade. Djibouti&#8217;s external public debt has surged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":179821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651502:8d1df32fc76493ee8aab9aacd0a4e78c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,4701,568,3576,5080,7559,257,6678,869,254,6443,23061,7182],"class_list":["post-179820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-economic","tag-faces","tag-firm","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-somaliland","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands","tag-strain","tag-tensions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651502:8d1df32fc76493ee8aab9aacd0a4e78c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179820","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=179820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}