Djibouti's location in a hostile neighborhood-with Yemen, Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia at its borders-combined with its commitment to peaceful, pro-west, moderate views makes it a unique and strategic partner. Djibouti is home to the only warehouse not based in the United States that prepositions American food aid for Africa and Asia, and reduces delivery times by 75 percent. It also hosts the only U.S. military base on the continent, East Africa's Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the current peace talks on Somalia. Although a small country, it possesses lofty ambitions of social and economic achievement. The government has made great advances in the last five years, including the development of the only deep-sea port in the region, increasing private sector investment, and making gains in health and education. But despite these advances, Djibouti's future is threatened by a lack of arable land, successive droughts, high rates of livestock mortality, chronic food insecurity, urban migration, a severe lack of a skilled workforce, high unemployment, disease, dangerous and porous borders, an influx of refugees (estimated at over 1,000 a month), and nascent government and political systems.