by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Intellectual
Djibouti is often described as a country that has turned its position into a strategy, and the description is accurate enough to be worth interrogating. A small state with limited domestic market has built national income out of being the place things must pass...
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Lifestyle
The arrival of a submarine cable is announced in the language of gigabits and gateways, terms that never reach the street. The PEACE cable entered commercial service this week with a landing in Djibouti, adding a high-capacity route between Asia, Africa and Europe....
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Farming
A submarine cable and a smallholder’s harvest seem to belong to different worlds, and for most farmers in the Horn they still do. The PEACE cable entered commercial service this week with a landing in Djibouti, adding a high-capacity route between Asia, Africa...
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Economics
An economy can host the world’s data and still not be enriched by it. Djibouti has spent years assembling the cables, ports and landing stations that make it a regional gateway, yet the test of any such asset is whether it changes what local firms can produce,...
by The Fikiria Desk | Dec 19, 2022 | Consumers
Djibouti has always earned its living from things passing through it — ships, bunker fuel, transit cargo bound for landlocked Ethiopia. A country built on transit rarely turns that traffic into gains its own customers can feel at the counter. The PEACE submarine...