Djibouti

MAJOR SETBACKS FOR FRUD

The Djiboutian armed forces have managed in the past few weeks since they began a general attack on the rebels [...]

GOULED SEEKS WARM ARAB RECEPTION

Djibouti's president Hassan Gouled Aptidon visited Kuwait last week, on what was to have been the first stage in a [...]

WAR AND THE BUDGET DEFICIT

The Djiboutian authorities have again started to attack the Afar rebels of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et [...]

MICHEL ROUSSIN

After meeting with Mozambique's president Joaquim Chissano in Paris on [...]

FINANCES UNDER SURVEILLANCE

A French financial mission was in Djibouti this week to examine the state of the public finances in that country, [...]

FAILED NEGOTIATIONS

Contact was made recently between the Djiboutian government and the rebel Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la [...]

FINANCIAL DANGER SIGNS

Although the French authorities had earmarked three million dollars in budget aid for Djibouti this year, the Djiboutian government has [...]

FRENCH WANT ALI AREF RELEASED

The foreign affairs sub-committee in the French national assembly announced on June 11 that the French cooperation minister, Michel Roussin, [...]

President Hassan Gouled Aptidon announced last week that he intends [...]

REQUEST FOR EMERGENCY AID FROM FRANCE

A French financial mission is to visit Djibouti starting June 21. The delegates in this mission will come from the [...]

GUY PENNE & PIERRE BIARNES

Last month, the two French senators representing French people living abroad individually called on the new French foreign minister, Alain [...]

FRENCH WAITING FOR OPPOSITION TO UNITE

The leader of the armed opposition in Djibouti, Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), Ahmed [...]

The four opposition candidates in the presidential election on May [...]

HASSAN GOULED APTIDON'S FOURTH TERM

Djibouti's Hassan Gouled Aptidon was re-elected for a fourth term, in the first round of the country's first contested presidential [...]

MICHEL ROUSSIN

French cooperation minister, Michel Roussin is expected to travel to [...]

Radio France Internationale (RFI), signed a contract with the Djiboutian [...]

A LONG-RUNNING INQUIRY

According to the French daily France Soir of April 23, several of the persons wanted, under an international arrest warrant [...]

The executive committee of Union des Démocrates Djiboutiens (UDD, Gadaboursi) [...]

The weekly government publication La Nation announced on April 22 [...]