Djibouti

STIFF SENTENCE FOR ALI AREF BOURHAN

After seven hours of deliberation on the night of 11 to 12 July, the Djiboutian security court sentenced former president [...]

The French ministry of overseas aid (cooperation) last week granted [...]

MARATHON TRIAL

The opening of the trial of the former president of the council of Afar and Issas under French colonial rule, [...]

ETHIOPIAN ISSAS DROP GOULED

The Issa Gurgura Liberation Front (IGLF), a formation comprising ethnic Issas living in the region of Dire Dawa, east of [...]

PRECIPITATING EVENTS

Djibouti's President Hassan Gouled Aptidon announced on 27 June that a constitutional referendum would be held on 4 September, and [...]

OMAR ELMI KHAIREH

The leader of the Front des Forces Démocratiques (FFD, mainly [...]

The United Nations is preparing to issue another appeal for [...]

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OPPOSITION GATHER IN PARIS

After the military threat posed by the Djboutian rebellion led by the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), comes a political challenge to Hassan Gouled Aptidon's regime, heralded by this week's meeting in Paris of [.

DJIBRILL HUSSEIN

A member of the Djiboutian navy, Djibrill Hussein, arrived in France a few weeks ago from Yemen accompanied by a [...]

MOHAMED DJAMA ELABE

Former Djiboutian health minister, Mohamed Djama Elabe was scheduled to [...]

OMAR ELMI KHAIREH

The vice-president of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) has been re-elected to this [...]

A SUCCESSION OF POLITICAL TRIALS

Mohamed Houmed Souleh, president of the Association pour la Défense des Droits de l'Homme et de la Liberté (ADDHL), on [...]

AHMED DINI

The Djiboutian Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de [...]

MOHAMED ELABE CAMPAIGNS

Djibouti's former minister of health and present leader of the Movement for Peace and Reconciliation party, Mohamed Djama Elabe, was [...]

AHMED SALEH

Ahmed Saleh, the marathon champion, attended the dinner offered on [...]

France's Caisse Centrale de Coopération Economique (CCCE) has decided to [...]

OPPOSITION CONFERENCE IN PARIS

A meeting between representatives of different tendencies of the Djiboutian opposition was preparing to meet in Paris this week. On [...]

BRITISH FOOD AID

Britain's minister for overseas development, Lynda Chalker, announced on 1 June that Great Britain has granted further emergency food aid [...]

BOMB ATTACK SUSPECT CONDEMNS ACT

One of the five people against whom an international arrest warrant has been issued by the French judge, Roger Le [...]