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Djibouti, the port-state squeezed by the Houthis’ Red Sea campaign - The Economist (No paywall)

We found the beach between two black hills. On the wet sand, yellow crabs scuttled across the tracks of a gazelle. The sun beat down on a rusting tank, left by French soldiers who once came here for artillery practice. There was something dreamlike about the scene: how the desert blurred into the shore, the waves into the sky.

Our driver parked the ambulance beside two clusters of dark rocks, arranged too neatly to be a natural feature of the landscape. “Here we have maybe ten, and there we have 14,” said Dr Youssouf Moussa. I realised we were looking at grave markers and that he was counting the people buried in the sand. “Behind that mound we have 20 more bodies. And behind that, in one place we have 43, in another place we have 16 bodies, in a third place we have five bodies…The 43 were, most of them, minors, children.”

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