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Arhiba lies hidden behind a hill: it is a shantytown of daily-wage labourers and the unemployed, of refugees and those forced to relocate to clear the way for progress. Half the population of Djibouti City lives 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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Arhiba lies hidden behind a hill: it is a shantytown of daily-wage labourers and the unemployed, of refugees and those forced to relocate to clear the way for progress. Half the population of Djibouti City lives 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.