Dijibouti

Capital: Djibouti

Region: East Africa, Horn of Africa

Borders:

Eritrea (113 km)
Ethiopia (337 km)
Somalia (506 km).
Coastline 314 km.

Official languages: French, Arabic

Recognised national languages: Somali, Afar

Government

President: Ismail Omar Guelleh
Prime Minister: Dileita Mohamed Dileita

Independence: June 27, 1977

Colonial Power: France

Area: 23,200 km2 (150th) / 8,958 sq miles

Currency Franc (DJF)

Internet TLD .dj | Calling code: +253

Links

allAfrica - Djibouti | BBC - Djibouti profile | CIA World Factbook - Dijibouti | Wikipedia - Djibouti

Videos

Al Jazeera English | US searching for a home for Africom | 05 Dec 2007

Washington is searching for a home for its new military operations centre for Africa. But Africom’s - as its called - has been dogged by controversy, as Mohammed Adow reports from Djibouti.

Sudan ranks at bottom end of latest UN development index
Wednesday 20 March 2013
March 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan languished at the lower end of the latest Human Development Index (HDI) published recently by the United Nations, ranking 171 out of 187 countries included world-wide. While the ranking puts Sudan (...)
Qatar Airways suspends all flights to Eritrea
Tuesday 6 December 2016
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle December 4, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – Qatar Airways announced it was suspending all flights to Eritrea, two years after launching flights to the reclusive East African nation. Qatar Airways Boeing 777-300ER A7-BAE (...)
RSF: East Africa stagnates near bottom of the index, Mali nosedives
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Reporters Without Borders 30 January 2013 World Press Freedom Index 2013 - Africa East Africa: journalists’ graveyard In Somalia (175th, -11) 18 journalists were killed, caught up in bomb attacks or the direct targets of murder, (...)
Sudan, Djibouti and Kenya set to benefit from Ethiopia’s power supply
Wednesday 8 October 2014
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle October 6, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia has connected its power grid with Sudan, Kenya and Djibouti in order to supply the countries with cheaper and cleaner hydropower processed electricity. The Ethiopian (...)
Sudan to construct military hospital in Djibouti
Sunday 22 November 2009
November 21, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) — Sudan will construct a military hospital for Djibouti armed forces, according to a bilateral agreement inked this week in the capital of Horn of Africa country. The deal was signed by Dijbouti National (...)
Sudan’s al-Bashir travels to Djibouti for Africa-China trade forum
Thursday 5 July 2018
July 4, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir on Wednesday travelled to Djibouti to participate in the China-Africa Economic Forum and Exhibition from 5 to7 July. According to the official news agency SUNA, al-Bashir (...)
US fear of Horn of Africa radicals overblown-expert
Monday 7 February 2005
By Matthew Green ADDIS ABABA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Fears that the Horn of Africa could become an incubator for international Islamic extremism are overblown, partly because plans to sow such militancy have already failed, a regional (...)
Alcatel-Lucent to lay submarine cable network in East Africa
Saturday 10 March 2007
March 9, 2007 (PARIS) — Alcatel-Lucent said it has won an order from East Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), a consortium of telecoms operators, to lay an optical submarine cable network spanning 10,0000 km and linking eight African (...)
South Sudanese rebel leader in Djibouti on diplomatic tour
Saturday 12 July 2014
July 12, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar is in Djibouti on the fourth leg of an ongoing diplomatic tour in the region to explain the position of his group and galvanise support for the peace process, which (...)
DJIBOUTI - News website correspondent still incommunicado 48 hours after arrest
Friday 10 August 2012
Reporters Without Borders calls on interior minister Hassan Darar Houffaneh and justice minister Ali Farah Assoweh to immediately reveal why La Voix de Djibouti correspondent Houssein Ahmed Farah was arrested two days ago, where he is (...)

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