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Young Djiboutian China Expert Uses Twitter to Try and Get the Finance Minister’s Attention For a Job

by Eric Olander

When Djibouti Finance Minister Ilyas Dawaleh tweeted this week about a meeting with Chinese ambassador Hu Bin to discuss the upcoming FOCAC summit, Charmarke Abdoulkader Hadji thought this might be a good way to get the minister’s attention and ask for a job.

“Mr. Minister,” he wrote in a comment below Dawaleh’s tweet,” in case you have a need for in-depth knowledge about China, I offer you my services as someone who knows about this country, its cooperation strategy with Africa and Djibouti in particular.”

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