Some states have a pivotal role in the U.S.-China rivalry based on their size and economic weight. Djibouti, a Vermont-sized country of 1 million people in the Horn of Africa, can hardly make that ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — A fuel shortage in Yemen is hampering the movement of people attempting to flee the country’s escalating violence and seeking safety across the Red Sea in Djibouti, as the U.N.

Thousands of Yemenis displaced by intensified fighting have fled across the Red Sea to Djibouti, with aid agencies “more than overwhelmed” by new arrivals amid the fallout from abrupt cuts to ...