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Addis Abeba \u2014 For three decades, Djibouti’s political economy rested on a simple model: Ethiopia needed Djibouti’s ports, and Djibouti needed Ethiopia’s trade. Around that relationship, President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh’s government built a model based on ports, foreign military bases, strategic infrastructure, and external financing. That arrangement transformed one of Africa’s smallest states into one of its most strategically important.<\/p>\n
However, the foundations beneath that model are shifting….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Addis Abeba \u2014 For three decades, Djibouti’s political economy rested on a simple model: Ethiopia needed Djibouti’s ports, and Djibouti needed Ethiopia’s trade. Around that relationship, President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh’s government built a model based on ports, foreign military bases, strategic infrastructure, and external financing. That arrangement transformed one of Africa’s smallest states into one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":248346,"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":[258,256,6396,18904,4701,568,4716,26763,6402,257,7047,10722,4268,10361,254,8007,11137],"class_list":["post-248345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asset","tag-crossroads","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-fault","tag-line","tag-news","tag-power","tag-red","tag-regional","tag-sea","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-struggle"],"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\/248345","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=248345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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