East Africa’s Window To The World: Djibouti

Economy, as it has been in the past, is giving direction to world politics today and it is decisive in international relations. Although the current economic system has adopted an understanding imposed by the western world, Islamic countries have a potential to change this position in terms of their resources and geographical location. The African country of Djibouti, whose independence from the French occupation for centuries has been achieved and whose population is almost entirely Muslim, is one of these countries with its strategic position. Situated at the point where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden, this country is the window of East Africa to the world. Becoming a commercial center for the region with its strategic position, Djibouti has emboldened the colonial appetites and forced the people of the Djibouti, who have been exploited for years, to live a life imposed by the French. In the country that gained its independence today, the economy is based on the land that is abandoned from ports and military bases. Djibouti, which has a serious potential in the fi eld of geothermal and solar energy, cannot validate them, but uses the World Bank and IMF loans, which are good implementers of the policies imposed by western economics. If this small but strategic country, which has gained its independence but is still dominated by modern colonialism, wants to be able to use its resources effectively and be able to have a word in its own future, this depends on the Islamic countries achieving their economic integration