The following is translated from French to English. It is taken from a Djiboutian newspaper, La Nation
Djibouti has just been given 5,000 hectares of agricultural land by Ethiopia.
President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has returned to the capital yesterday after a working visit to Ethiopia in 48 hours. The purpose of his stay in Addis Ababa focused on the formal concession of agricultural land with an area of five hectares, from the Ethiopian authorities.
The field, located in Bale in the Oromo region, will be used to grow wheat crop.
The concession is part of a government strategy adopted in 2005 designed to meet the food security of the country. The objective remains more than ever a national priority insofar as the price of basic food commodities have experienced successive increases over the past months.