Djibouti

Djibouti

Population: 0.8 million
GNI: $856 million
Debt: $390 million
Overview: Gulf investors flood in while President Ismael Omar Guelleh profits from US and French garrisons and offers some electoral reform ahead of legislative elections in early 2008.

news from Djibouti

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  • Vol 49 No 13
  • 20/06/2008

Shooting war in Djibouti

The border battle at the mouth of the Red Sea looks more like Eritrean aggression

  • Vol 49 No 11
  • 23/05/2008

A dangerous invasion

Eritrea sent its troops into Djibouti, a small country with powerful allies

  • Vol 48 No 15
  • 20/07/2007

JACQUES ET LE JUGE

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&...

  • Vol 48 No 10
  • 11/05/2007

JUDGES SWOOP

The struggle to shed light on the 1995 death of French Judge Bernard Borrel in Djibouti continues.

  • Vol 47 No 22
  • 03/11/2006

Ill-judged death

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...

  • Vol 46 No 8
  • 15/04/2005

Radio silence

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.

  • Vol 42 No 3
  • 09/02/2001

World record?

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...

  • Vol 41 No 13
  • 23/06/2000

Time to talk

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...

  • Vol 40 No 12
  • 11/06/1999

Francophilie

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...

  • Vol 40 No 7
  • 02/04/1999

Gouled's choice

Ismael Guelleh is set to win the elections – having an uncle for President helps

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