{"id":228308,"date":"2026-03-24T01:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-salaam-city-set-to-begin-construction-as-djiboutis-largest-residential-site\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:48:43","slug":"djibouti-salaam-city-set-to-begin-construction-as-djiboutis-largest-residential-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-salaam-city-set-to-begin-construction-as-djiboutis-largest-residential-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti: Salaam City Set to Begin Construction As Djibouti&#8217;s Largest Residential Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> President Ismail Omar Guelleh is scheduled to preside over a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for Salaam City, a residential project slated to become the largest housing development in the history of Djibouti.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Managed by Salaam Real Estate, the project represents a significant shift in the nation&#8217;s urban planning. Developers say the site will eventually host more than 7,000 residential units, including a mix of apartments and houses designated as F3, F4 and F5 models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Officials said the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603230693.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>&#8211; President Ismail Omar Guelleh is scheduled to preside over a groundbreaking ceremony Monday for Salaam City, a residential project slated to become the largest housing development in the history of Djibouti. Managed by Salaam Real Estate, the project represents a significant shift in the nation&#8217;s urban planning. Developers say the site will eventually host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":228309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,6603,7601,4701,568,7235,10885,257,19630,18154,7106,7378,254],"class_list":["post-228308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-construction","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-largest","tag-news","tag-residential","tag-salaam","tag-set","tag-site","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/228308","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=228308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}