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Djibouti: Economic Miracle Without a Cause
; ...coastal towns when the French arrived, they were not...Ever since, the Djibouti territory's main industry has been servicing the French bases there. Apart from a few Afars in the north, the people who were around when the French disembarked were mostly...enclave became known as ...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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St Tropez in the Horn? Djibouti.(Djibouti looks ahead)
; ...its hottest. The Afars (sometimes known...have changed. These Afars sell it for $7 a...garrison of the French Foreign Legion...almost entirely on French largesse. When independence...formerly called the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas) is still ...
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Depressed among the Danakil; Ethiopia.(A puzzling kidnap in north-east Ethiopia)
; ...British-Italian woman and a French woman), along with a dozen...Africa: the land of the Afars (or Danakil), who straddle...well have been kidnapped by Afars acting on their own. They...genitals as snuff pouches. The Afars say their real concerns...highlands by camel caravan. The Afars' ...
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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50 for fun; Phil Brown's trivia quiz.(Features)
; ...Which archetypally smooth French singer was actually born...Williams out of this year's French Open? 28 He became the...novel On Beauty? 43 Named French Somaliland and then French Territory of the Afars and Issas during colonial rule...
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TRAVEL: THE HEAT IS ON Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, is truly a holiday destination for adventurers. Mark Stratton finds its lunar landscape and sensuous waters strangely seductive
; ...place. Formerly the "Territory of Afars and Issas" (after its two largest...groupings), this ex- French colonial possession gained...made more so by strong French and American military...passers-by. I hear Arabic, French, and many unrecognisable...
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The She-Camels of Las Anod
; ...grandfather Joseph Farah Siad, who died prematurely, was a court interpreter on this same French Coast of Somaliland that became the French Territory of the Afars and Issas, then, upon independence in 1977, simply the Republic of Djibouti. Our driver patiently...
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Snipers
; ...as it made its way from the French airbase in Djibouti to the...immediate independence for the French territory of Afars and Issas-or they would cut the children...Negotiations between the local French commander and the terrorists...
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