Ab Hassan Ali, on top of the lighthouse on the deserted headland, crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and headed to war-torn Yemen. Then, behind him, went to Ethiopia, which was suffering from the war. Then, on his right, in troubled Somalia. Finally, on the left of Eritrea, the dictatorship participated in the Tigri conflict in neighboring countries. “This is a peaceful trading point,” said the witty man in charge of this work. Djibouti used to be a French colony. Only 1 million people lived in the past. This is a rare point of stability on the way to the Suez Canal (the hub of global trade) at a very strategic location (the southern end of the Red Sea).