Djibouti

Lying on the Gulf of Tadjoura, it is home to a population of around 45,000 inhabitants. It is the third largest city in the country.

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Really makes you appreciate what we have

Local school

Along the waterfront in Tadjourah

Downtown Tadjourah

Unemployment is extremely high in Tadjourah. It is 9 in the morning as we drove to town.

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Tremendous poverty

Unemployment runs around 54%. You can see it on the streets. Men, boys, teenagers nothing to do.

Djibouti produces virtually nothing, relying instead on its port, which neighboring Ethiopia uses for its own imports and exports

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Waiting to buy fresh fish just caught that monring

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Cutting up the fresh fish just caught.

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A Marlin or Swordfish just caught that morning.

Looking from outside on the street into the fish stall cutting up the meat of the fish