French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to Djibouti on Friday, where he will have a dinner meeting with the French troops stationed in Djibouti, before proceeding to Ethiopia, the French presidency said.
He will meet with his Djibouti counterpart, Ismail Omar Guelleh, and discuss the situation in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, especially in Somalia, where there are various conflicts and attacks by the radical Islamists of Al-Shabaab, as well as in Sudan, and destroyed by more than a year and a half of civil war.
The French base in Djibouti, home to 1,500 troops, is the largest of France’s forces abroad and is the only one not affected by the historic reductions planned for French forces in Africa after a series of setbacks in France’s occupation of the Sahel region in recent years.
President Emmanuel Macron will fly to Addis Ababa on Saturday, where he will meet Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. They will open the National Palace, a historic building that was the last residence of King Haile III, who was overthrown in 1974.
The French Development Agency has contributed 25 million Euros to its renovation and conversion into a museum.
In addition to bilateral relations, the two leaders will also discuss the regional and domestic tensions, two years after the accord that ended the Tigray war, which killed several hundred thousand people in the north. in that country.
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