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A strategic port in the Horn of Africa is at the center of a $500 million lawsuit

QUARTZ 10 April 2019 by ABDI LATIF DAHIR A London court has delivered the latest verdict in the battle to manage one of Africa’s most strategic ports. The Court of International Arbitration, which helps to resolve international commercial disputes, has ruled that Djibouti breached the rights of Dubai...

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European Banks May Fund Djibouti Airport After China Deal Nixed

BLOOMBERG 11 April 2019 by NIZAR MANEK Djibouti cancelled China Civil Engineering contract in 2017 Potential loan for $420 million will be repaid...

China’s massive underwater blasts at Djibouti military base pose huge risk to environment

THE PRINT 11 April 2019 by COL. VINAYAK BHAT (RETD) Satellite imagery showing an underwater blast | Col. Vinayak Bhat (retd) /ThePrint New Delhi: China’s...

Djibouti’s debt to China has the US and France worried

THE AFRICA REPORT 8 April 2019 Djibouti is in the midst of a port and rail spending spree estimated at over $12bn, and the US and France are not happy...

Djibouti fined 20% of GDP for seizing port

CAJ NEWS AFRICA 9 April 2019 by SAID ABOUBAKER DP World DJIBOUTI, (CAJ News) – A London court has awarded Dubai firm DP World $385m in compensation...

China is playing the West’s debt game

THE ARAB WEEKLY 7 April 2019 by GEOFFREY ARONSON To Washington’s growing dismay, China today, using methods first used by the West itself, has embarked...

Djibouti Needed Help, China Had Money, and Now the U.S. and France Are Worried

BLOOMBERG 6 April 2019 by NIZAR MANEK The African nation is tiny, poor, strategically located—and deeply in debt to Beijing. Inside the carriages on...

Rwanda, Djibouti sign MoU to develop Special Economic Zone land

CNBC AFRICA 3 April 2019 Last week Rwanda and Djibouti’s boosted their relations as they signed a joint venture; between the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority and Prime Economic Zones Ltd for the development of 10 hectares of land that was given to Djibouti by Rwanda. ...

Bolton Builds Anti-China Campaign at the U.N.

FP 3 April 2019 The U.S. national security advisor, who has largely ignored the United Nations, is suddenly concerned that Beijing has too much influence...

AFRICOM, EUCOM nominees eye Russia, China as major concerns

STARS AND STRIPES 2 April 2019 by JOHN VANDIVER Gen. Tod D. Wolters, left, and Gen. Stephen J. Townsend share a laugh as they prepare to testify Tuesday,...