Djibouti

COURTESY COPS

The government Bill creating the Force Nationale de Police (FNP), a new police force which the cabinet recently endorsed (ION [...]

REFINERY PROJECT DUMPED

Two decrees adopted by the government have just cancelled accords signed in April, 1989 with a private Saudi Arabian group [...]

END OF A DREAM

The first cabinet meeting of the year, held on January 5 and presided by head of state Hassan Gouled, adopted [...]

ARMY INTEGRATION FOR FRUD

Next week should see the start of integrating former combatants of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de [...]

HEADS I WIN, TAILS YOU LOSE

Djibouti's minister for justice, penal affairs and Islamic matters, Moumin Bahdon Farah, addressed a letter by fax to The Indian [...]

OUGOUREH KIFLEH AHMED

The secretary general of Djibouti's Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD), which signed the agreement [...]

THE DOVE OF PEACE

The agreement of peace and reconciliation signed in Djibouti's Palace of the People on December 26 (ION N° 652) is [...]

JEAN MICHEL POUCHELE

The representative of the NGO SOS Africa who was sentenced [...]

AGREEMENT WITH FRUD AT LAST

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Djibouti's interior minister Idriss Harbi Farah and the Front pour la [...]

LEGAL EAGLES TUSSLE

The affair of Jean Michel Pouchele, a young French volunteer worker jailed for eight months in Djibouti on charges of [...]

RETURN TO FRANCE AND PRISON

France has finally completed negotiations for Frenchman Jean Michel Pouchelle to serve in a French prison the remainder of the [...]

Acting with considerable delay on the original timetable, Caisse Française [...]

The parastatal Caisse Française de Développement has granted Djibouti a [...]

DO NOT PASS "GO"

It was virtually a case of Monopoly's "Go directly to jail" for the two men charged over the terrorist attack [...]

TALKS - AD INFINITUM

After pausing for a month, peace talks between the Djibouti government and Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de [...]

According to an Arab diplomatic source in New York, the [...]

JEAN MICHEL POUCHELLE

The Djibouti Appeal Court on November 30 confirmed and in fact increased the sentence on Jean Michel Pouchelle (ION N° [...]

According to the Saudi daily Al Sharq Al Awsat of [...]

TWO SUSPECTS RELEASED

Judge Roger Le Loire, the Paris magistrate charged with investigating the terrorist attack on Djibouti's Cafe de Paris on September [...]