AGP Executive Report
Last update: 3 hours agoMaritime Security: India’s ₹1 lakh crore Project 18A ramps up seven next-gen stealth frigates with BrahMos missiles, signaling a sharper blue-water posture aimed at countering PLA Navy moves in the Indian Ocean. Red Sea Risk: With U.S.-Iran tensions flaring, warnings over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait—near Djibouti—are back in focus as Houthi and Iranian officials threaten disruption of export corridors. Djibouti in the Climate Tech Pipeline: The TRANS-SAHARA project’s African WEFE Nexus Summit spotlights practical, community-led water-energy-food solutions across Ghana, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Senegal, Djibouti and Chad. Disaster Preparedness: Action Against Hunger and IGAD launched IMPAACT to scale science-based anticipatory action for 243,801 people across Ethiopia, Somalia and Djibouti. Clean Coasts, Shared Standards: Scientists from 21 African countries, including Djibouti, are harmonising protocols to monitor coastal microplastics using nuclear and isotopic techniques under IAEA support. Nuclear Cooperation Watch: Russia says a Rosatom-Djibouti memorandum on peaceful nuclear energy cooperation is likely to be signed in October 2026.
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