Djibouti City, Djibouti – Djibouti's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Yonis Ali Guedi, hosted on May5th Ethiopia’s Minister of Mines, Habtamu Tegegn, for high-level talks focused on advancing bilateral energy cooperation and strategic infrastructure projects in the Horn of Africa.
According to the Djibouti News Agency (ADI), the two ministers agreed on several key projects, most notably a cross-border gas pipeline that will link Ethiopia’s Calub and Hilala gas fields to the Damerjog gas terminal on the Red Sea coast, with the aim of exporting natural gas to Asian markets.
They also discussed a proposed South Sudan–Djibouti oil pipeline, which would run through Ethiopia and serve as a safer export corridor for South Sudanese crude oil, away from the region’s conflict zones.
A third initiative involves connecting the Djibouti–Ethiopia railway to the Doraleh oil refinery, facilitating the transport of refined petroleum products to Ethiopia’s interior.
Minister Guedi emphasized the importance of translating economic ties into tangible outcomes: “Our economic interdependence is an opportunity, and it is up to us to turn it into visible, impactful projects,” he said.
For his part, Minister Tegegn praised Djibouti’s strategic vision for logistics and energy infrastructure development and invited Minister Guedi to visit the Calub and Hilala gas fields in Ethiopia’s Somali region.
During his stay, Minister Tegegn also met with senior Djiboutian officials and visited key facilities including the Doraleh Port, the International Free Trade Zone, Damerjog Industrial Park, and the new petroleum terminal.
The talks underline growing economic and political cooperation between Djibouti and Ethiopia amid shared ambitions to become regional energy and logistics powerhouses.
