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Spotlight | Horn of Africa
The French Presence is Still Weak

A group of French senators has just written a long travel report on the Horn of Africa "terra incognita" for French diplomacy [...]

Published on 24/05/2003 at 11:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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Horn of Africa
Review of the French Senators' Mission

Last week, the delegation of four French senators who visited the Horn of Africa from February 14 to 23 (ION [...]

Subscribers only Politics 14.03.2003

Horn of Africa
Slump of Exchanges with France

The first semester of 2002 saw France's trade with the countries of the Horn of Africa (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Sudan) [...]

Subscribers only Politics 18.10.2002

Eritrea, Ethiopia
FRENCH WARNING SHOT

Anxious about Eritrean threats of revenge against Djibouti because of its alignment alongside Ethiopia in the border dispute opposing Asmara [...]

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Spotlight | Djibouti, Ethiopia
MARRIAGE BANNS?

Ismail Omar Gelleh, chef de cabinet to Djibouti head of state Hassan Gouled Aptidon and his nephew and probable successor, has confirmed the likelihood of a Djibouti-Ethiopian union in a recent interview for the Ethiopian pro-government Amharic-language magazine Efoyta.

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Spotlight | East Africa
ROUND-UP OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

The annual jamboree of French ambassadors and trade counsellors serving in East Africa and the Horn of Africa with representatives of French companies trading there, inaugurated in Nairobi by Kenyan finance minister Musalia Mudavadi, revealed an increase in competition on [.

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Djibouti, Ethiopia
MAHAMOODA GAAS

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

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Djibouti
PRELIMINARY TALKS

In Djibouti, at Assa Geyla, the main base of the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie [...]

Subscribers only 14.11.1992

Spotlight | Djibouti
AN ILLUSION OF CROSSROADS

On his return from a visit to France, the Djiboutian minister of foreign affairs, Moumin Bahdon Farah, said last week that the democratic process in his country should, if it is carried through to the end, "lead to a referendum [.

Subscribers only 16.05.1992

Spotlight | Horn of Africa
A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?

Albeit with its intentions veiled, the recent conference on humanitarian questions, held this month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was the first step in a kind of episodic Yalta agreement, aimed at restructuring the whole region, under the watchful [.

Subscribers only 25.04.1992

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Horn of Africa Review of the French Senators' Mission

Horn of Africa Slump of Exchanges with France

Eritrea, Ethiopia FRENCH WARNING SHOT

Spotlight | Djibouti, Ethiopia MARRIAGE BANNS?

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Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Spotlight | Horn of Africa
The French Presence is Still Weak

Horn of Africa
Review of the French Senators' Mission

Horn of Africa
Slump of Exchanges with France

Eritrea, Ethiopia
FRENCH WARNING SHOT

Spotlight | Djibouti, Ethiopia
MARRIAGE BANNS?

Spotlight | East Africa
ROUND-UP OF FRENCH INTERVENTION

Djibouti, Ethiopia
MAHAMOODA GAAS

Djibouti
PRELIMINARY TALKS

Spotlight | Djibouti
AN ILLUSION OF CROSSROADS

Spotlight | Horn of Africa
A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?