The border battle at the mouth of the Red Sea looks more like Eritrean aggression
Eritrea sent its troops into Djibouti, a small country with
powerful allies
Police raids on the house of ex-President Jacques Chirac's
Africa advisor Michel de Bonnecourse on 9 and 10 July raise
the stakes in the investigation into claims by a former Djibouti
presidential guard, Mohamed Saleh Alhoumekani, that President
Isma&...
The struggle to shed light on the 1995 death of French Judge
Bernard Borrel in Djibouti continues.
Embarrassing differences are emerging between the French judiciary
and President Jacques Chirac's Cellule Africaine
over the death in Djibouti in 1995 of French Judge Bernard
Borrel. The Cellule Africaine insists that Borrel committed
suicide (some of...
The mysterious non-appearance of a promised report on the state-run Radio France Internationale on the investigation into the death of French Judge Bernard Borel has caused anger among journalists at the Maison de la Radio in Paris.
Many have been surprised to learn that Djibouti had Africa's - and possibly the world's - longest-serving Prime Minister. For most people, this fact emerged only when Barkad Gourad Hamadou resigned on 6 February. His tenacity in the post, for a staggering...
The Somali National Peace Conference in Djibouti finished six weeks of initial consultations and moved on last week to phase two (AC Vol 41 No 7). Hundreds of participants (some picked by Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh and his team, some self-se...
French officials were taken aback by the success
of the visit to Paris on 24-29 May by Djibouti's new President,
Ismael Omar Guelleh. They were particularly pleased by
his apparent Francophilia. Though in an interview with the daily
'Le Figaro' he c...
Ismael Guelleh is set to win the elections – having an uncle for President helps
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