Geopolitical Tensions in the Horn of Africa

So the global inferno has shifted entirely

to the Horn of Africa and tiny Djibouti, geographically.

How so?

The United States

has a military base considered the foremost in Africa,

the foremost in the world in Africa,

and China

has a base in Djibouti next to the

American base, three kilometers

away only.

This Chinese base

has ten thousand

soldiers and all the equipment.

And what does China want? It wants

the world's largest Chinese base to be located in Djibouti.

And it is also the first.

The first Chinese base

outside China,

in Djibouti.

And here, it is the first in Africa.

So the conflict has shifted to this small region.

That is why the United States

is thinking of something else today:

moving from Djibouti to, for example, Berbera in

northern Somalia, or Somaliland.

Why? Because it wants to move away from its bitter rival,

which excels

through its technology

at counterfeiting or replication.

It sees every day the planes taking off

from Djibouti Airport, and it shocks it.

So America fears for its technology that…

From there, it extends to China through China’s presence in Djibouti.

So, someone once wrote in an article, I think he was American,

that the war would begin,

or World War III, in a

remote region,

not in the Far East, but in East Africa, in

Djibouti.

That’s what this means.

Okay, the regional countries, Sheikh, like Turkey.

France is also present.

France is present.

France’s largest military base in the world is in Djibouti.

France’s largest base is in Djibouti.

France’s largest military base outside its borders is in Djibouti.

There are approximately four thousand soldiers there.

There are other bases as well. Japan.

Japan has bases too.

Its only base abroad is in Djibouti.

Its only one.

Its only one.

Spain,

Italy.

Russia wants one now.

Saudi Arabia wants one.

Egypt wants one too.

And all of these are present in—

Turkey also has a presence.

No. Let’s turn to the regional powers

that are influential.

They are

three countries, four countries.

The first is Turkey.

Turkey built its largest military base outside

its borders in Somalia.

It also has a very strong presence

economically in Ethiopia.

The second-largest investor after China in Ethiopia

is Turkey.

The second power present is Israel.

It is present

in some way in Ethiopia,

and in another way in Eritrea,

and covertly

in Djibouti.

This is Israel.

Thirdly, the third power present is Iran.

Iran has a presence in Eritrea. Look,

the issue is that Israel is present,

and Iran is also present

on some islands.

It also wanted to establish

a

military base in Somalia, but the Somalis refused.

It also wanted to establish a military base in Sudan, but Sudan refused

for fear of Shiite expansion.

People were afraid.

Are there resources they covet in the Horn of Africa,

or is it only a passage and a strategic area?

No. One day, one of

the Saudi intelligence officers, while

lecturing before Shin Bet in the United States,

said

a phrase about this that I consider powerful

and important and strategic.

This man said,

“If we wanted

eternal peace”

Between the Arabs and Israel.

We must do the following:

There is,

in the Ogaden region,

which is

a Somali region under the Ethiopian state,

Ethiopia, he says that in this region there is

a lake of gas

unlike any in the world.

Good God, has it been discovered, or is it still...?

It has been discovered, but it has not been exploited yet.

He said this must be exploited,

then the Bridge of Light must be built between Djibouti

and Yemen.

Second.

Third, the culture of democracy must be spread

in Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula, Somalia and Djibouti

and Ethiopia.

This third point is strange.

Why?

I don't know. He is giving the lecture before Shin Bet.

What does Shin Bet mean?

Israeli intelligence, as well as before

the Jewish community

in America

and before everyone. So, he was an intelligence man.

Ur, Ur, Ur, his name is Ur Da, I don't remember it

now.

This man said,

if that is accomplished,

if that is accomplished, then we look

toward establishing an eternal peace between Israel and the Arabs,

as if this peace were linked to the wealth of the Horn

of Africa.

Look at what's in the Horn of Africa now. They say all the coasts

of Somalia,

from Djibouti all the way down to Kenya,

are said to have oil, gas, gold,

and a great many minerals.

It has the largest livestock wealth in the world,

the largest livestock wealth in the world, from Sudan to

Somalia. There is also the greatest

fish wealth,

meaning, the sea

is three thousand five hundred kilometers long.

It stretches from the far south of Somalia to

Tadjoura and Eritrea. This is a very important region.

But.