On today’s program, Mohamed Siad Doualeh, Djibouti’s ambassador to the United States as well as representative to the United Nations, discusses the importance of engaging with African nations to foster stability and security, the reluctance for nations to choose sides in an era of increasingly heated great-power competition, addressing turmoil in Somalia, Ethiopia and Yemen, the role of the Economic Community of West African States in confronting the junta that deposed Niger’s legitimately elected President Mohamed Bazoum, and Djibouti’s openness to hosting military forces from France, America, Britain as well as China with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.