Djibouti

MOHAMED DJAMA ELABE

The first ordinary congress of the Parti du Renouveau Démocratique [...]

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CIVIL WAR FLARES UP

In the run up to the presidential elections in Djibouti on May 7 and 21, tension is mounting again. Fighting erupted in mid-March between the government forces and those of the rebel Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de [.

STRONG OIL POTENTIAL IN SOMALIA

According to a recent study carried out by Petroconsultants of Geneva, Switzerland on oil potential in East Africa, Somalia has [...]

In November 1992, the Africa specialist in the French conservative [...]

THE WATER WEAPON

Fighting is reported last week in Djibouti, around the water wells supplying Khor Angar between government troops and the rebels [...]

After an exploratory mission to the rebel held zones of [...]

British Overseas Development minister, Lynda Chalker announced on March 18 [...]

MAHAMOODA GAAS

The leader of the Afar Revolutionary Democratic Union (ARDU) who attended a conference in Paris last week on reconciliation in [...]

GOVERNMENT ADVANCES

The Djiboutian government forces announced the taking of Khor Angar on the north-east coast on March 15, from the rebels [...]

FIGHTING CONTINUES

The rebels belonging to the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie (FRUD) in Djibouti attacked the [...]

The Djiboutian government has taken 250 million Djiboutian francs (about [...]

TRANSPORT LINK-UP MOVES ALONG

A four-man mission from the Caisse Française du Développement (CFD), Messrs Martin, Ficatier, Wachenheim and Widmaier, set off for Djibouti [...]

RECURRING NIGHTMARE OF FRENCH MEDIATION FAILURE

France has once again failed in its attempt to mediate a solution to the Djiboutian conflict between the government and [...]

HASSAN GOULED APTIDON

The Djiboutian president sent on February 22, a circular to [...]

BEDEMO IN THE RED

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the Banque de Djibouti et du Moyen Orient S.A. (Bedemo) is [...]

Government daily mouthpiece, La Nation reported on February 18, that [...]

Bedemo is not the only financial institution in a tight [...]

INDUSTRIAL FREE ZONE PROJECT FUNDING

The Technical Assistance Fund (TAF), affiliated to the African Development Bank (ADB) is to approve in the second half of [...]

MOHAMED DJAMA ELABE

Former Djiboutian Health minister and leader of the Parti du [...]