By Al Jazeera, China is negotiating a military base in a strategic port of Djibouti, the president said, according to the AFP news agency. The move raises the prospect of US and Chinese bases side-by-side in the tiny Horn of Africa nation. “Discussions are ongoing,” President Ismail Omar Guelleh said in an interview in Djibouti, saying […]
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By Washington Post, CONDITIONS at an African base used by U.S. military pilots flying missions over Yemen and Somalia have become chronically dangerous, with fliers relying on local air-traffic controllers who sleep on the job and commit frequent errors, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Conditions at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti are so bad that […]
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By Sharmini Peries, THIS is the Glen Ford Report on The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. Eritrea and Ethiopia, two of the world’s poorest countries, spent hundreds of millions of dollars in a war between them. They have suffered tens of thousands of casualties as a direct consequence of this […]
Continue ReadingBy African Intelligence, THE plan for economic integration devised by Djibouti and neighbouring Ethiopia could ultimately lead to a kind of political unification between the two countries. During the last few weeks, certain Ethiopian dignitaries have hinted at it and one of them even went so far as to utter “a single country with two chiefs”. […]
Continue ReadingBy TesfaNews, IN a message he sent to President Vladmir Putin of Russia, President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea said “although his country is not a supporter of the Cold War, the fact that the past 25 years witnessed a uni-polar world marred by wars, continued crises and deep sufferings attests to the need for a global […]
Continue ReadingBy Ahmed Abdi, MUSE Robleh Herad, 36, and Hodan Mohammed Isse, 29, were involved in the deadly attack at a La Chaumere restaurant, which left 20 people dead and 15 others wounded. Herad entered the second room of the La Chaumere restaurant where International soldiers were sitting and blew up himself, within seconds later his […]
Continue ReadingBy U.S. Embassy (Addis Ababa), THE U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa would like to remind U.S. citizens living or traveling in Ethiopia to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to enhance personal security. The Embassy continues to receive credible threat reports of Al-Shabaab’s intent and capability to attack Ethiopia and western […]
Continue ReadingBy African Intelligence, AMERICAN diplomats and military have recently begun to question their local contacts about the FRUD Afar rebel movement and its allies in the region. Since Washington made Djibouti into a lasting home for its military base, its diplomats and military are keeping a keen watch on all the kinds of risk that […]
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