True. France has lost its influence in djbouti when djbouti leased their camp lemonnier to the US, there is also the US africom base. Djbouti port has been leased to dubai port for 30 years.Typhoon wrote:
djoubuti got lucky because bab el mandeb and the world would not allow Ethiopia to control djoubut
Djbouti is againist somaliland because of its port barbara as ethiopia lives through djbouti and pays for them $720 million annually plus their strong trade through the ethiopo-djbouti railways. Ethiopia pays in US currency since dubai started managing the port and they want to up the rate, this made ethiopia to construct its own port in tajura, they laid the corner stone in there.
I would like to ask you about the djouti-somali relations back in the 80s, my info says from al haj guleed interviews with arabic media that siyaad barre was dreaming about having djbouti too and that his position was to have an equal brotherhood relationship with somalia but barre was telling him at times that he has an army from mogadisho to zaila!. From what I got the wrong was from siyaad barre side but anyways what was the djoubian position from the somali-ethiopian war? Did they sided with anyone? Were they were closer to ethiopia or somalia or were just neutral?




