Djibouti

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AN ILLUSION OF CROSSROADS

On his return from a visit to France, the Djiboutian minister of foreign affairs, Moumin Bahdon Farah, said last week that the democratic process in his country should, if it is carried through to the end, "lead to a referendum [.

PHILIPPE VADJOUX

In Djibouti, Philippe Vadjoux is the French Caisse Centrale de [...]

AHMED DJAMA EGUEH

A young trade union activist, close to the former Djiboutian health minister, Mohamed Djama Elabe, Ahmed Djama Egueh was arrested [...]

HOVERING BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE

Head of African affairs at the French foreign ministry, Paul Dijoud arrived in Djibouti this week for another stab at [...]

The European Development Fund (EDF) has approved nearly nine million [...]

HASSAN ABDALLAH WATTA

A former civil servant who worked in the Djiboutian agriculture [...]

FRENCH TROOPS QUIT HANLE PLAIN

The French military contingent left its positions on Hanle Plain in Djibouti on April 24, and have moved to Yoboki. [...]

MICHEL HONORIN

A French television journalist, Michel Honorin is chair of the [...]

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A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?

Albeit with its intentions veiled, the recent conference on humanitarian questions, held this month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was the first step in a kind of episodic Yalta agreement, aimed at restructuring the whole region, under the watchful [.

ARITHMETICAL ERRORS IN CENSUS

Headed, "A Dubious Publication", an article, with no by-line, appeared in the Djiboutian government daily, La Nation on April 9, [...]

DEPUTIES MANDATE EXTENDED

The Djiboutian council of ministers passed on April 21, a draft bill to extend, "provisionally", the mandate of the members [...]

AWALEH GUELLEH ASSOWEH

The Paris judge assigned to the case of the grenade explosion in Djibouti on September 27, 1990, Roger le Loire, [...]

BASHIR AND ZENAWI ADVISE GOULED

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, during talks in Djibouti on April 7, between head of the [...]

MOUMIN BAHDON FARAH

Djibouti's foreign minister is due to arrive in Bonn, Germany, [...]

DISPUTE OVER FRENCH POSITIONS ON HANLE PLATEAU

The French army in Djibouti and the Djiboutian government throughout last week had been arguing over the positions held by [...]

OPPOSITION PLANS TO RESUME FIGHTING

On April 8, the spokesman for the Djiboutian opposition Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), [...]

Radio Djibouti reports that the Djiboutian government decided on April [...]

REGIS DE BELENET

The new French ambassador to Djibouti took up his functions [...]

MOHAMED HOUMED MOHAMED

President of the Djiboutian Association for the Defence of Human [...]