Signed at a ministerial session in Djibouti, the Djibouti-Ethiopia-South Sudan-Uganda DESSU Corridor Authority has been formally established; the accord starts a regional framework for coordinating trade, transport, and logistics across the four nations

The educational reform workshop organized by the Ministry focused on integrating the General History of Africa into the secondary school curriculum; the UNESCO-supported initiative fits in the frame 'rethink educational content based on African reality'

A large-scale operation in District 7, a working-class neighborhood of Djibouti City, led to the arrest of over 330 people suspected of illegal activities, particularly those related to trafficking, of which seven were wanted by the security services

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh was reelected for a sixth term after official results showed him winning 97.01% of the vote in the election held on 10 April