the real question is though given its strategic location and obvious importance of world trade and hence all the countries willing to work with them why is djibouti not one of the richest countries in this part of the world NUMBER_TOKEN of djibouti's population lives in poverty with NUMBER_TOKEN living in extreme poverty so in a sense what i'm asking is why are they not basically just a carbon copy of singapore djibouti's location is in a sense its only real economic asset the country's dry arid climate leaves a scant NUMBER_TOKEN percent of its land area being arable in addition the country's two largest clans the afars and the issa's fought a bloody civil war from NUMBER_TOKEN to NUMBER_TOKEN which destroyed much of the agricultural infrastructure within the nation in a sense if the country were located basically anywhere but this specific point very few people would actually want anything to do with it despite this djibouti ultimately wants to become the dubai of africa and with their economy set to grow by nine percent in NUMBER_TOKEN the country does seem poised to make use of their strategic position however its position hasn't not posed certain risks and downsides for the country president ismail o'markele is currently in power in his fifth term in office having first assumed power in NUMBER_TOKEN and has been accused of being a dictator known to jail opposition leaders and expel foreign observers with this many criticized much of what we talked about and particularly galays seeking of closer ties to china as all going more towards stabilizing the current regime rather than the country itself in addition with so many of the world's most powerful countries being allowed by golai's government to host military bases in this oh so important region which would be extremely difficult otherwise many say these countries have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo either way in the coming decades people are definitely going to be looking a lot at djibouti come on nice uh ship you got by the way oh yeah you like these backdrops i actually learned how to make them with a skillshare course by siobhan tommy uh background design art for animation you built this spaceship with skillshare sure i mean skillshare is a whole dedicated learning community with thousands of courses on everything from videography to graphic design to after effects to starting your own business who are you talking to and also since the internet out here in deep space is kind of crappy what was the communication delay and all that i could actually download the courses and save them for later and what's better is skillshare is entirely curated for learning so no ads or anything like that okay can you just draw me off on luna or somewhere like that look do you want to find sam or not okay fine continue and besides in terms of how long the courses are in my opinion they're actually perfectly balanced as all things should be because they're all long enough to cover basically everything you need to know but also divide it into little five to ten minute chapters just in case you don't happen to have all the time in the solar system plus it's also interactive because a lot of the courses have projects that you can use to follow along with lessons how long did you say it would take with the black drive five six days yeah we still got a bit of a ways to go i mean we're not even traveling at full g see actually now that
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN nice uh ship you got by the way oh yeah you like these backdrops i actually learned how to make them with a skillshare course by siobhan tommy uh background design art for animation you built this spaceship with skillshare sure i mean skillshare is a whole dedicated learning community with thousands of courses on everything from videography to graphic design to after effects to starting your own business who are you talking to and also since the internet out here in deep space is kind of crappy what was the communication delay and all that i could actually download the courses and save them for later and what's better is skillshare is entirely curated for learning so no ads or anything like that okay can you just draw me off on luna or somewhere like that look do you want to find sam or not okay fine continue and besides in terms of how long the courses are in my opinion they're actually perfectly balanced as all things should be because they're all long enough to cover basically everything you need to know but also divide it into little five to ten minute chapters just in case you don't happen to have all the time in the solar system plus it's also interactive because a lot of the courses have projects that you can use to follow along with lessons how long did you say it would take with the black drive five six days yeah we still got a bit of a ways to go i mean we're not even traveling at full g see actually now that END_SPONSOR_TOKEN