Recent News and Events: Djibouti


Four killed in Mogadishu attack (AFP via Yahoo! News)

A Mogadishu official and three members of his security escort were killed Saturday in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in the north of the Somali capital, an official told AFP.

UNICEF: Soaring Child Deaths In Greater Horn Of Africa Must Be Averted (Medical News Today)

A lethal mix of drought, expanding conflict, rising food and energy prices, disease, and high poverty is pushing children and their families in the Greater Horn of Africa to the brink of disaster. Actions and policies are needed now to avert grave human suffering. Ethiopia and Somalia are the worst affected, but parts of Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya and Uganda show ominously similar signs.

US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 468 (AP via Yahoo! News)

As of Friday, July 4, 2008, at least 468 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures June 28 at 10 a.m. EDT.

AA Gill in the Seychelles (Times Online)

The Seychelles are suspended in daydream, a sunny, spectral place that bobs over the computer screen, floats in the spume of the sink, shimmers in the exhaust fumes of the rush hour.

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Djibouti ( Arabic : جيبوتي ‎ Jībūtī , Somali : Jabuuti ), officially the Republic of Djibouti , is a country in eastern Africa . Djibouti is bordered by Eritrea in the ...

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