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Introduction to Djibouti
Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:40 am
The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Unrest among the Afars minority during the 1990s led to a civil war that ended in 2001 following the conclusion of a peace accord between Afar rebels and the Issa-dominated government. Djibouti's first multi-party presidential elections in 1999 resulted in the election of Ismail Omar GUELLEH. Djibouti occupies a very strategic geographic location at the mouth of the Red Sea and serves as an important transshipment location for goods entering and leaving the east African highlands. The present leadership favors close ties to France, which maintains a significant military presence in the country, but has also developed increasingly stronger ties with the United States in recent years. Djibouti currently hosts the only United States military base in sub-Saharan Africa and is a front-line state in the global war on terrorism.
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Transportation of Djibouti
Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:39 am
Airports:
13 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 3
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2005 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 10
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 3 (2005 est.)
Railways:
total: 100 km (Djibouti segment of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway)
narrow gauge: 100 km 1.000-m gauge
note: railway under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia (2004)
Roadways:
total: 2,890 km
paved: 364 km
unpaved: 2,526 km (1999)
Merchant marine:
total: 1 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,369 GRT/3,030 DWT
by type: cargo 1 (2005)
Ports and terminals:
Djibouti
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Transnational Issues of Djibouti
Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:39 am
Disputes - international:
Djibouti maintains economic ties and border accords with "Somaliland" leadership while maintaining some political ties to various factions in Somalia; although most of the 26,000 Somali refugees in Djibouti who fled civil unrest in the early 1990s have returned, several thousand still await repatriation in UNHCR camps
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 25,474 (Somalia) (2004)
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Military forces of Djibouti
Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:38 am
Military branches:
Djibouti National Army (includes Navy and Air Force)
Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age (est.); no conscription (2001)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 95,328 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 46,020 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$28.6 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.4% (2004)
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Communications of Djibouti
Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:35 am
Telephones - main lines in use:
9,500 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
23,000 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: telephone facilities in the city of Djibouti are adequate as are the microwave radio relay connections to outlying areas of the country
domestic: microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 253; submarine cable to Jiddah, Suez, Sicily, Marseilles, Colombo, and Singapore; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; Medarabtel regional microwave radio relay telephone network
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2001)
Television broadcast stations:
1 (2002)
Internet country code:
.dj
Internet hosts:
702 (2004)
Internet users:
6,500 (2003)
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