Djibouti

In a background document on Africa and the Indian Ocean [...]

The head of state, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, granted a presidential [...]

SHARP FUEL PRICE RISES PLANNED

The draft budget to be presented to parliament in the [...]

DJAMA ALI GELLEH

As director general of Electricité de Djibouti (EDD), he is in direct conflict with the industry minister, Ali Mahamadé Houmed, [...]

ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE...

As the chairman of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), Ahmed Dini, arrived in Paris [...]

EXCHANGE OF POW'S

The Djibouti government and Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) exchanged prisoners of war in [...]

PORT REHABILITATION

A meeting of fund donors in Paris has been scheduled for the middle of January 1994 under the auspices of [...]

ANTI-FRENCH TONES FROM RPP

The political bureau of Rassemblement pour le Progrès (RPP), the pro-government political party in Djibouti, decided on November 9 to [...]

BITTER BATTLE FOR THE CHAIR

The election of the vice-president of Djibouti's national assembly, Said Ibrahim Badoul, as its president on November 22 produced sharp [...]

FRESH AMBUSH IN THE NORTH

A military engagement between units of government forces and of FRUD (Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la [...]

A DIFFICULT YEAR IN 1994

Djibouti's financial situation in 1994 looks like being morose, despite the 700 million Djibouti francs in special drawing rights the [...]

ADB GRANT PLANNED FOR THE MINING SECTOR

By the end of the year ADB is expected to [...]

AFAR DISSIDENTS IN THE GOVERNMENT

According to sources close to the Djibouti political opposition parties, the country's industry minister (and government spokesman), Ali Mahamade Houmed, [...]

The Vergoz shipyard of Concarneau, in north-western France, announces that [...]

IDRISS HARBI FARAH

Djibouti's interior and decentralisation minister and the French ambassador in [...]

HASSAN ABDALLAH WATTA

A former militant supporter of Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) in Addis Ababa before [...]

SOCIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL MALAISE

Employees at Peltier Hospital in Djibouti came out on strike this week in protest against non-payment of wages (some claim [...]

The French cooperation ministry's recently authorised budget for 1994 covers [...]

AMEDE MONCHAL

France's army chief of staff, general Amédé Monchal, had a [...]