AfDB/WEF Financing Push: The African Development Bank Group and the World Economic Forum launched the Humanitarian and Resilience Investing (HRI) Roadmap for Africa, aiming to shift fragile economies from aid dependence to investment-led growth, with pilots already running in Liberia, Somalia, Mozambique—and Djibouti—amid a reported $400bn annual financing gap. Horn-of-Africa Health Security: IGAD unveiled a $31.9m PREPARE project to strengthen pandemic preparedness across Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda using a One Health approach, including cross-border surveillance and lab capacity. Climate & Public Health: A WHO-led study warns snakebite risk is rising as warming pushes venomous snakes into new areas and closer to people, with millions of cases globally each year. Maritime Security Watch: The Djibouti Code of Conduct chair condemned the continued detention of the Palau-flagged tanker MT HONOUR 25 and urged sustained vigilance as piracy remains fragile in the Gulf of Aden and off Somalia. Regional Humanitarian Alarm: Aid agencies and Catholic Church leaders warned Somalia is nearing catastrophe, citing severe food insecurity and acute malnutrition driven by drought, displacement and conflict.