Dire Dawa City of Ethiopia and the neighboring country’s city of Djibouti have expressed intent to revitalize and cooperate in fostering and promoting culture, tourism, the flow of trade.
The mayors of the two cities have also inked an agreement today to promote investment, and infrastructural capacity building ties between the peoples of the two cities, according to the information the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia has disseminated today.
“The Mayor of Dire Dawa City, Kadir Juhar, is in Djibouti on a three-day working visit in order to revitalize the already vibrant and intricately entwined sister cities of Dire Dawa City and Djibouti City,” it said quoting the Ethiopian Embassy in Djibouti.
“The Mayors of Dire Dawa, Kadir Juhar, and Djibouti, Said D. Mohamed, signed the MoU in recognition of the deep socioeconomic, cultural, and historical ties between the residents of Dire Dawa and Djibouti, which stem from the existing, long-established, and constantly evolving cordial relations between the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti.”
Following the memorandum of understanding inking ceremony, the mayor of Dire Dawa city and his delegation, as well as the FDRE Ambassador to Djibouti, Berhanu Tsegaye, presented 62,000 seedlings to the mayor of Djibouti city, representatives from the Djibouti Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries resources, and respectable guests.
“As part of expanding the country’s Green Legacy initiative to neighboring countries, Ethiopia has managed to deliver 62,000 seedlings to Djibouti in the 3rd round. A quarter of a million trees have been proffered so far, engendering an exemplary green economic integration, according to the Ethiopian Embassy in Djibouti.
Railway construction started in 1897 progressed inland from Djibouti & reached Dire Dawa in 1902. Since then, the train was instrumental for cultural exchange causing the creation of a family. Tonight, I'd the pleasure of having family dinner with the Mayors of the two cities. pic.twitter.com/RKf8NpytKJ
— Berhanu Tsegaye (@BerhanuTsegaye) October 8, 2022