Djibouti

GOULED BATTENS DOWN HATCHES

Head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon summoned members of the political bureau of Rassemblement Populaire pour la Progrès (government party) [...]

A WEE STEP WITH THE IMF

Djibouti's council of ministers of April 30 decided to slash 798 million Djibouti francs (FFr.26.6 million) from the state expenditure [...]

KOICHIRO MATSUURA

Japan's Koichiro Matsuura, who has been ambassador to France since [...]

The European Investment Fund is to put up ECU 115,000 [...]

GENEVA TALKS SET BACK

The conference of international fund donors which the Djibouti government had planned (with financial assistance from the United Nations Development [...]

Caisse Française de Développement has signed a financial protocol worth [...]

Spotlight
WAR OF SUCCESSION

The current infighting between Issa dignitaries in Djibouti is beginning to overshadow the older split between Issas and Afars which had dominated the country for years during the civil conflict between the government and the Afar guerrilla.

GOOD PORT AUTHORITY RESULTS

Despite a decline of 25 percent in first-half 1994, activities of Djibouti Port Authority over the whole year were down [...]

GELLEH'S WRATH

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Ismail Omar Gelleh, head of state Hassan Gouled's nephew (and chef [...]

A meeting of pro-Saudi Muslims was held last week in [...]

FRENCH SPYMASTERS AND THE AFARS

Spy or diplomat? Sometimes a spy masquerading as a diplomat! A book (published by Fayard in Paris) by Claude Silberzhan, [...]

France is expected to announce (on April 4) its policy [...]

SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Nairobi, the Kenyan government, spurred on by [...]

DIPLOMATS STAY OUT

The forty-five day deadline for Djibouti's diplomats who have been recalled to actually return home is getting very close now. [...]

REAL ESTATE BUST-UP

A dispute over real estate exploded into violence between local inhabitants and the public security force last week around Arta, [...]

MATTEO ZUPPI

A delegation of the Roman Catholic community Sant'Egidio headed by [...]

FRENCH MILITARY MISSION REVIEWED

Giving an account of the visit he made to Djibouti early last year (ION N° 629), French MP Xavier Deniau [...]

SEEING IT THEIR WAY

Once spread right across Africa, Italian cooperative assistance (except to North Africa) has been recycled in recent years into two [...]

MOHAMED ALI MOHAMED

Djibouti's economics and trade minister is due to meet with [...]