A SOMALI proverb says that a woman should be either married or in her grave. And in the Horn of Africa, the proverb might as well go on to say that, if she is married, she had better be pregnant, nursing or postmenopausal. My husband, Tom, and I moved to Somaliland nine years ago with our 2-year-old twins to work for a nongovernmental organization...
WASHINGTON -- An austere Pentagon outpost in the hardscrabble desert on the Horn of Africa proved serendipitously ideal as a launching pad for Tuesday's commando raid that freed two aid workers held in Somalia. The use of the base, Camp Lemonier in neighboring Djibouti, is also a signpost to the future, as the military focuses on ''economy of...
A long-awaited contingent of soldiers from Djibouti arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, on Tuesday to join the African Union peacekeeping force. After a few hours of confusion about where the Djiboutians would be based, about 200 soldiers wearing helmets and flak jackets marched off the plane and headed to a camp along the ocean. Djibouti had...
Djibouti er et land beliggende i det østlige Afrika.
I det 19. århundrede etablerede Frankrig et protektorat i området kaldet Fransk Somaliland, ledet af Léonce Lagarde. I 1967 blev navnet ændret til Det franske Afar- og Issa-territorium. Den 27. juni 1977 fik landet sin selvstændighed som Djibouti.
En borgerkrig ledet af rebeller fra Afarstammen i de tidlige 1990'ere blev stoppet med en fredsaftale i 1994.