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Djibouti and the Horn of Africa: new front in the war on Iran

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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.

Read original at Al Jazeera English

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