Topic: Djibouti

First Djibouti troops join AU Somalia force

The first Djiboutian contingent of 100 soldiers landed in Mogadishu Tuesday to join the African Union force battling Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab forces in Somalia, the mission said."An advance party consisting of 100 troops ... arrived at Mogadishu airport this afternoon. A further 800 ...

Djibouti bolsters peacekeepers in neighbor Somalia

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Djibouti sent the first soldiers of a 900-strong deployment to neighboring Somalia on Tuesday to bolster an under-staffed peacekeeping mission that is preventing Islamic militants take over the Somali capital.The 100 soldiers flew into Mogadishu to join the African ...

US defence chief visits Djibouti for terror talks

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta held talks Tuesday with Djibouti President Ismael Omar Guelleh on tackling terrorism during a visit to the Red Sea state, home to the only US army base in Africa."Djibouti is a central location for continuing the ...

Total appeals Djibouti pollution sentence

PARIS (Reuters) - Two units of France's Total have appealed a Djibouti court sentence to pay 204 million euros ($272 million) in damages and fines in a pollution case dating back to 1997, a spokesman for the group said on Friday.The ...
Arab Spring uprisings have inspired repression in many countries as well as protests, international rights investigators said Monday.People are still being locked up and tortured even in countries where governments have changes, leaders of the International Human Rights Federation (FIDH) said ...
Ethiopia is deepening its power links with neighboring Djibouti. Ethiopia and Djibouti have opened a 230-kilovolt electric power transmission line...

Ethiopia says plans to build more Nile dams

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has announced plans to construct two dams along its share of the Nile, six months after embarking on a 5,250 MW power plant that rankled Egypt over concerns it might affect the flow of the river.The ...
Here are the latest developments in unrest sweeping the Middle East and North Africa following uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia that toppled their...

26 Saline Lakes Of The World

The three largest salt lakes in the world are the Caspian Sea, Aral Sea Lake Balkhash. Eventually, a salt lake will turn into salt flat if the...

Geography of Somaliland

Somaliland, a historic region of eastern Africa. It occupies the Horn of Africa (Somali Peninsula), bounded on the north by the Gulf of Aden and on ...