By FRANCOIS SOUDAN | JEUNE AFRIQUE* China, the United States, France, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia … A few months before the 40th anniversary of independence, the president returns to the geopolitical stakes of the region, of which his country has become a key player. On the domestic front, he did not disarm and defended his record against […]
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By Harun Maruf | for VOA News, Opposition activists in Djibouti say as many as 19 people were killed Monday when security forces opened fire on a religious gathering in the capital. Witnesses said the troops targeted a crowd in the Balbala neighborhood that was commemorating the late religious leader Sheikh Yonis Muse. Security forces […]
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By James Lessons | for OpEdNews, The United States has a well-worn track record of staying strategically silent about certain countries’ human rights abuses while lambasting others. Nowhere is this two-track approach more visible than in the small country of Djibouti, located in the Horn of Africa. Since 1999, Djibouti has been ruled by President […]
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By The African Report, Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there is a new arena for high- stakes diplomatic rivalries – Djibouti in the Horn of Africa. Some of the most powerful militaries in the world – China, France, Japan, Russia and the US – glower at each other across Djibouti’s Gulf […]
Continue ReadingBy ION, THE flight to Paris of President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) for medical reasons on 27 May has fuelled conversation in Djibouti and set the rumour-mongers going. The social networks became rife with wild speculation. Some even went so far as to claim he was in agony and had had to have a leg […]
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