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During a recent trip to the Chinese city of Shenzhen, businesswoman Hibo Bacha was surprised to find a robot serving her dinner in her hotel room. “I had ordered room service. The robot was able to speak, it could even open and close the door,” she recalls. “When I came back to Djibouti, I said...
To gauge the ambitions of the Republic of Djibouti, a visit to the Red Sea World International Exhibition Centre is a must. Inaugurated in June 2022 by President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, this building houses a scale model of the project to transform the old port over the next 25 years. This historic...
The Morocco-based multinational company, O Capital Group, is one of the most significant organisations working to transform Djibouti into a modern and highly efficient trade and communications hub in the Horn of Africa.
The Group, an investment holding, is among only a select few...
Dr Slim Feriani, the CEO of the Fonds Souverain de Djibouti (FSD) or Sovereign Wealth Fund of Djibouti, is a British-Tunisian dual national. He has over 25 years of experience in international capital markets and recently served as a Minister in Tunisia where he led two portfolios, those of...
When we interviewed Ilyas Dawaleh in Washington during the World Bank Spring Meetings, he offered a balanced assessment of his country’s economy.
“Touch wood,” he said, “our economy has proved pretty resilient to all these shocks,” referring to the series of global crisis from...
Expounding on the partnership between the International Financial Corporation (IFC) and Djibouti, Cheick-Oumar Sylla, the IFC’s director for North Africa and the Horn of Africa, states: “We are committed to contributing to Djibouti’s journey to become a regional hub for trade, logistics and...
The construction of this project, which is part of our energy transition, is a decisive milestone in the energy sector,” announced H.E. Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, President of the Republic, when he inaugurated the country’s first wind farm in September 2023. Located near the Bay of Ghoubet, 120 km...
Every Friday morning, the Sheraton Djibouti Hotel offers its guests a boat trip to Moucha Island, some fifteen kilometres off the coast of the capital. “With this destination, there is no need to envy the Maldives or the Seychelles,” enthuses Emmanuel Riggi, the manager of the hotel, which has...
Mariam Hamadou Ali’s career began at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, which she joined in 1997. “I think I was the only female manager at the time,” she recalls. “I worked in a number of exciting areas, which included managing the portfolio of state-owned companies, drawing up the ‘Vision...
Nigeria’s lead female presidential Obiageli Ezekwesili has withdrawn from the race with just 22 days left to the much hyped polls.
In a statement released Thursday (24 January) she said she was stepping aside from “to help build a coalition to defeat” the two main contenders –...
Oliver Mtukudzi is no more. For decades he was not only a household name in Africa, but across the globe and appealed to a diverse audiences. However, as we reported in the archive piece below when Ish Mafundikwa caught up with him back in 2012, there was much much more to the affable Tuku,...
Perhaps for the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the annual gathering of the world’s richest nations (and a fair sprinkling of those on the other side of the divide) for the World Economic Forum summit at Davos, Switzerland, will show more fissures than the proverbial Swiss...
The election of Dr. Abiy Ahmed as Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister could well prove to be a pivotal moment in the country’s history. Suddenly, everything is possible. By Mimi Alemayehou
Certain years in the life of a nation can be so pivotal that they represent a rebirth. Think of 1865,...
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Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is...