Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf says his country has a proposal that could solve the dispute between Somalia and Ethiopia. In an interview with VOA's Horn of Africa Service ...

The country also has an Arab trading community and a substantial French ... Both Ethiopia and Djibouti have historical, religious, ethnic and cultural attachments. Both Somali and Afar speaking ...

825AD - Somali and Afar ethnic ... 1888 - French colony of Somaliland established over the region. 1892 - Djibouti becomes capital of French Somaliland. 1897 - Ethiopia acquires parts of Djibouti ...

The highest of these, the Mousa Ali volcano along Djibouti’s border with Ethiopia and Eritrea ... While the country’s official languages are French and Arabic, most people speak either Somali or Afar ...

Djibouti's security forces executed a drone strike near the Ethiopian border ... officials did not respond to requests from VOA Somali to provide further details regarding the incident.

About 1.4m Afars live in Ethiopia with smaller, but still very significant, Afar communities living as minorities in the neighbouring countries of Eritrea and Djibouti. Most Afars are nomadic herders.

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1888 - French colony of Somaliland established over the region. 1892 - Djibouti becomes capital of French Somaliland. 1897 - Ethiopia acquires ... place during which Afar people and Europeans ...

With a strong Afro-Arab ... Djibouti uses preventive diplomacy during the dispute between Somalia and Kenya in 2020. Similarly, its role in attempts to pacify disputes in the Horn multilaterally (IGAD ...

825AD - Somali and Afar ethnic ... 1888 - French colony of Somaliland established over the region. 1892 - Djibouti becomes capital of French Somaliland. 1897 - Ethiopia acquires parts of Djibouti ...

Since then, Ethiopia has sent most of its sea trade through Djibouti. Ethiopia and Somalia have a history of stormy relations and territorial feuds, fighting two wars in the late 20th century.