Djibouti joined Eritrea and Somalia in rejecting an appeal from Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to grant his country direct access to a port on the Red Sea, one of the world\u2019s busiest shipping routes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur two countries have always maintained strong, friendly relations,\u201d said Alexis Mohamed, a senior adviser to Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh. \u201cBut you should also know that Djibouti is a sovereign country, and therefore, our territorial integrity is not questionable, neither today nor tomorrow.\u201d [\u2026] CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Djibouti Latest Nation to Reject Ethiopia’s Red Sea Access Plea Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":464976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Djibouti-Denies-Ethiopias-Request-for-Direct-Red-Sea-Port-Access.jpg?fit=598%2C435&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1WSw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464977,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464660\/revisions\/464977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}