Djibouti

BIRTH OF AN AFAR POLITICAL PARTY

Former members of Mouvement Populaire de Libération (MPL) announced at a meeting in the Afar suburb of Arhiba on October [...]

EXTENDING BOULAOS

An official of Electricité de Djibouti (EDD) was recently in France to meet representatives of SEMT Pielstick, an Alsthom subsidiary [...]

The latest issue of the publication Le Combat, which is [...]

SOFTLY SOFTLY, CATCHEE...

Collecting debts for the Banque de Djibouti et du Moyen Orient (BDMO), which was recently placed under a receiver (ION [...]

ROGER LE LOIRE

Judge Roger Le Loire, who is in charge of the legal investigation following the bomb attack on the Cafe de [...]

The head of Parti du Renouveau Démocratique (PRD), former minister [...]

FRANCE AND THE WAR CHEST

Djibouti's head of state, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, recently announced that the "patriotic" levy intended to finance the country's military activities [...]

BITTER BATTLE TO HEAD CDE

Nomination of a new general manager for Chemin de Fer Djibouto-Ethiopien (CDE), which is expected around mid-October, has turned into [...]

The US administration, via its embassy in Djibouti, has confirmed [...]

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IMF MATTERS

In France, head of state François Mitterrand and his cooperation minister Michel Roussin have risen above any discordance of political cohabitation to adopt a single and unified stance of determination in their financial discussions with the government of Djibouti.

TENSION RISES IN THE NORTH

France's foreign ministry stated on September 14 that it was "preoccupied to note that the continued conflict between Djibouti government [...]

OPPOSITION: AGITATION

The leaders of Djibouti's principal political opposition parties, Aden Robleh Awaleh of Parti National Démocratique (PND) and Mohamed Djama Elabe [...]

The governor of Banque Nationale de Djibouti (BND), Luc Aden, [...]

THE HEAVY BURDEN OF CIVIL WAR

Djibouti's head of state, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, met with the French cooperation minister, Michel Roussin, in Divonne Les Bains, France, [...]

FATHI AHMED HUSSEIN

Djibouti's army forces chief of general staff issued a communique [...]

A residents' association in Obock, a town in northern Djibouti, [...]

The government of Djibouti informed the French authorities that the [...]

GUERILLA FORCES DOWN BUT NOT BEATEN

In a statement dated July 27, issued from Paris, the Djiboutian, mainly-Afar rebel Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et [...]

MAJOR FRENCH BANK BNPI HOLDS ITS OWN IN UNFAVOURABLE CLIMATE

The Banque Nationale de Paris Intercontinentale (BNPI), whose parent that is based in the French capital, BNP, is on the [...]