AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoEthiopia Election Countdown: Ethiopia has entered the final stretch before its June 1 general election, with campaigning now over and voters set to choose lawmakers in a vote expected to involve more than 54 million registered people. Regional Election Monitoring: IGAD has deployed 26 election observers across Ethiopia and says it is working under African Union guidelines, while IGAD officials also met the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission to discuss monitoring, complaints handling, and rights protection. Djibouti-Ethiopia Energy Deal: Djibouti’s ports authority says it is waiting for Ethiopia’s participation in the next budget year to start building an oil depot at the Damerjog Liquid Bulk Port in Damerjog, near the Somaliland border, with Ethiopian Investment Holdings expected to finance the storage farm. Private Investment Push for Fragile States: The AfDB and the World Economic Forum launched the Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) Roadmap for Africa, aiming to mobilize private capital for frontier markets, with pilots already underway including in Djibouti. Maritime Security Watch: The IMO’s Djibouti Code of Conduct chair warns that Somali piracy remains suppressed but fragile, condemning the continued detention of the Palau-flagged tanker MT HONOUR 25 and urging sustained vigilance in the Gulf of Aden.
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