Djibouti built its economy on the strategy of charging rent to different military world powers.
Source: Al Jazeera
Djibouti and the Horn of Africa: new front in the war on Iran
Djibouti built its economy on the strategy of charging rent to different military world powers.
The US, China, France, Japan, Turkey and Italy all have a base in this Horn of Africa country. But the expansion of the war on Iran threatens to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait and make Djibouti the next hotspot. Al Jazeera’s Marthe van der Wolf explains.
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