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"Friendship is over, maybe some love, but rarely, if there is a word as big as this...". A poem on the wall of a house in the slums of Arhiba. Poetry on a wall of the Slums. Half the population of Djibouti City live in slums like Arhiba, with little water, work or schools...A walk through Arhiba, a slum mostly inhabited by the Afar tribe, the poorest (and sometimes dangerous) area of Djibouti. Arhiba is faced with huge problems of sanitation, extreme malnutrition (Djibouti is expensive and dependent of all imports), tuberculosis, Aids etc...The geostrategical and geopolitical importance of the Republic of Djibouti, located on the Horn of Africa, by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.

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"Friendship is over, maybe some love, but rarely, if there is a word as big as this...". A poem on the wall of a house in the slums of Arhiba. Poetry on a wall of the Slums. Half the population of Djibouti City live in slums like Arhiba, with little water, work or schools...A walk through Arhiba, a slum mostly inhabited by the Afar tribe, the poorest (and sometimes dangerous) area of Djibouti. Arhiba is faced with huge problems of sanitation, extreme malnutrition (Djibouti is expensive and dependent of all imports), tuberculosis, Aids etc...The geostrategical and geopolitical importance of the Republic of Djibouti, located on the Horn of Africa, by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, and bordered by Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.