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| | The World at War - French Empire Timeline 1940-45 |
 | | French territories in the West Indies would be kept out the hands of those Secretary of State Hull termed, "the so called Free French", until long after the Axis ended the charade of Vichy and occupied the whole of metropolitan France in the wake of the American landings in North Africa. | | | French authorities arrest the president, prime minister and members of the cabinet. | | | The constitution of the Fifth Republic was approved by vote of the French Community in September 1958. |
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| | This act entitled the region to representation by one deputy and one senator in the French Parliament, and one counselor in the French Union Assembly. | | | The area was ruled by the Vichy (French) government from the fall of France until December 1942, and fell under British blockade during that period. | | | The directive also reorganized the governmental structure of the territory, making the senior French representative, formerly the governor general, a high commissioner. |
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http://www.multied.com/NationbyNation/Djibouti/history2.html
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| | TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents |
| | This act entitled the region to representation by one deputy and one senator in the French Parliament, and one counselor in the French Union Assembly. | | | The area was ruled by the Vichy (French) government from the fall of France until December 1942, and fell under British blockade during that period. | | | The directive also reorganized the governmental structure of the territory, making the senior French representative, formerly the governor general, a high commissioner. |
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| | Somaliland Forum |
| | The Republic of Somaliland is the former British Somaliland Protectorate from the 1880s to 26 June 1960 when it became the independent "State of Somaliland." Many countries formally welcomed the new state. | | | Since then, Somaliland has established a bicameral parliament, an independent judiciary and a government headed by a President. | | | The Constitution of the Republic was endorsed at a referendum in 2001, and in December 2002, nationwide local elections were held. |
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http://www.somalilandforum.com/slf/press_release/slf_mr-04-02-03.shtml
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| | This act entitled the region to representation by one deputy and one senator in the French Parliament, and one counselor in the French Union Assembly. | | | The area was ruled by the Vichy (French) government from the fall of France until December 1942, and fell under British blockade during that period. | | | The directive also reorganized the governmental structure of the territory, making the senior French representative, formerly the governor general, a high commissioner. |
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| | Middle East Report Online: Signpost in Somaliland’s Quest for Sovereignty, by Nathalie Peutz |
| | Finally, on May 31, 2001, a referendum was held on the constitution that was simultaneously a plebiscite on Somaliland’s independence. | | | With allowances for the lack of census data and limited resources for voter registration in a largely nomadic and illiterate society, the elections were judged free and fair by local and international observers, although irregularities were noted. | | | The three parties to win the permanent right to run were Egal’s Democratic United Peoples’ Movement (UDUB), the Somaliland Unity and Development Party (Kulmiye) headed by former SNM chairman Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud Silanyo, and the Party for Justice and Democracy, chaired by Faysal Ali Warabe. |
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| | Curious case of Somaliland - The Washington Times: Commentary - January 06, 2005 |
| | In 2001, Somaliland held a referendum that approved a constitution and reaffirmed its independence. | | | Ninety-seven percent of the voters approved the constitution, and two-thirds of eligible voters participated. | | | American diplomats by nature tend to be cautious and are reluctant to appear to be rewarding breakaway states in Africa. |
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| | Djibouti, A Virtual Word Tour - Virtual Tour |
| | This act entitled the region to representation by one deputy and one senator in the French Parliament, and one counselor in the French Union Assembly. | | | The area was ruled by the Vichy (French) government from the fall of France until December 1942, and fell under British blockade during that period. | | | The directive also reorganized the governmental structure of the territory, making the senior French representative, formerly the governor general, a high commissioner. |
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| | inside somaliland: A French academic questions Somaliland's academic freedom and respect for the constitution |
| | With due respect to the Minister of Interior’s views, I categorically say that this Minister is flatly wrong and my expulsion from Somaliland raises serious concerns on the state of academic freedom in Somaliland and was a very wrong reading some of the officials of your country have of your democratic constitution. | | | On 31 August 2005, I was asked by Somaliland immigration officers to leave Somaliland by 1 pm that day. | | | Being an academic has a number of professional implications: respecting the laws of countries you are visiting is one of them that I have respected throughout all my stays in your country from 1993. |
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http://www.insidesomaliland.blogtales.com/archives/000449.html
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| | ipedia.com: Somaliland Article |
| | The prime minister of British Somaliland, Haji Ibrahim Egal, became a minister in the new republic of Somalia. | | | Egal was elected president in 1993, re-elected in 1998 and remained in power until his death on May 3, 2002. | | | He became Prime Minister in 1967 but a coup deposed him in 1969. |
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| | Somaliland.Org |
| | A referendum on the Somaliland Constitution was held in 2000, local elections were held in 2002 and presidential elections in 2003. | | | The State of Somaliland was an independent African state, albeit, for a brief period, in 1960, and had its own Constitution, legislature, executive and judiciary. | | | In pursuit of the dream of “Greater Somali State”, the State of Somaliland was one of the very few sovereign states, which gave up its sovereignty to unite with another state, Somalia &; a state that became independent later than Somaliland. |
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| | On July 1, the two legislatures met to elect a provisional President of the Somali republic, though no act of union had been signed. | | | Pan African ideology has reached the hearts of all Somalis and the quest to create a "Somali State" (not a Somalia State) became a dream to be fulfilled | | | The "Somali Republic State" was to consist of five territories : British Somaliland, |
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| | With the help of Ismael Omar Guelleh, who became president in 2000, the Isaak-Somalis were also defeated. | | | The People's Progress Assembly (RPP), led by Hassan Gouled Aptidon, won the elections, and Hassan Gouled became president. | | | As Djibouti geared up for the 1997 general elections, renewed fighting between Afar sepratists who had opposed the peace negotiations and government forces broke out along the Eritrian border. |
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| | Issa iyo Jamhuriyadooda Short History |
| | With the help of Ismael Omar Guelleh, who became president in 2000, the Isaak-Somalis were also defeated. | | | The People's Progress Assembly (RPP), led by Hassan Gouled Aptidon, won the elections, and Hassan Gouled became president. | | | As Djibouti geared up for the 1997 general elections, renewed fighting between Afar sepratists who had opposed the peace negotiations and government forces broke out along the Eritrean border. |
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| | French Colonial Empire - Introduction |
| | In 1763, at the end of the Seven Years' War, the French lost Canada and India to the British, and in 1803, Napoleon I sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States. | | | French colonial imperialism survived World War I, but World War II led to its reorganization as the French Union, and finally to its dissolution — primarily as the result of the wars in Indochina and Algeria. | | | Before the French Revolution, Henry IV, Louis XIV, and the latter's minister Jean Baptiste Colbert, who founded the French East India Company, and many missionaries, explorers, and merchants helped acquire Canada, Louisiana, several West Indian islands, and parts of India for France. |
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| | SAGALLO - LoveToKnow Article on SAGALLO |
| | , a sma~l settlement on the north shore of the Gulf ef Tajura, French Somaliland. | | | The Russian foreign office having disavowed (7th of February) any connection with Achinov, instructions were sent from Paris to secure the removal of the Cossacks. | | | On the 17th of February French warships appeared off the port, and an ultimatum was sent to Achinov calling on him to surrender, but without effect. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Djibouti |
| | Dileita Mohamed Dileita (born 1958) has been the Prime Minister of Djibouti since March 4, 2001. | | | Western Sahara This is an alphabetical list of the sovereign states of the world, including both de jure and de facto independent states. | | | List of Heads of State of Djibouti Affiliations:- See also:- Djibouti Heads of Government of Djibouti French Territory of Afars and Issas (FTAI) French Somaliland Colonial Heads of Djibouti (French Somaliland) Lists of Incumbents Categories: Lists of office-holders... |
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| | Despite a majority vote to remain with France in 1958, the campaign for independence finally succeeded in 1977 with Hassan Gouled as president. | | | It was renamed the French Territory of the Afars and Issas in 1967. | | | Although Amnesty International has charged the security forces with brutal treatment of political prisoners, Djibouti was elected to the UN Security Council for 1993-5. |
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| | JIBUTI - LoveToKnow Article on JIBUTI |
| | It has been the seat of the governor of the colony since May 1896. | | | (DJIB0uTI), the chief port and capital of French Somaliland, in 11 35 N., 43 10 E. Jibuti is situated at the entrance to and on the southern shore of the Gulf of Tajura ut 150 m. | | | Jibuti was founded by the French in 1888 in consequence of its superiority to Obok both in respect to harbour accommodation and in nearness to Harrar. |
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| | Djibouti: history |
| | During the 1970s, renewed resistance forced acting governor Ali Aref to resign. | | | Djibouti became the official capital of this French territory in 1892. | | | In 1946 French Somaliland acquired the status of an overseas territory (from 1967 called the French Territory of the Afars and Issas), and in 1958 it voted to become an overseas territorial member of the French Community under the Fifth Republic. |
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| | French Somaliland |
| | A French overseas territory with limited self-government on the Gulf of Aden in North East Africa. | | | 1959 (a) French Somaliland 1 Franc (Al) - BU | | | A portion of the profits from this website are donated to the Starcross Community, an organization providing love and care, in a home setting, to children afflicted with the AIDS virus. |
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http://www.bearscoinshop.com/html/french_somaliland.html
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| | Ethiopia 1935-55, Part 5 |
| | The matter came to the fore in the Spring of 1946 when a British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin (a prominent Labour politician), proposed that the Ogaden be joined to ex-Italian Somalia and British Somaliland to form a Somali Territory under British Trusteeship. | | | The question of the Ogaden, and Britain's insistence on retaining the territory, which had a Somali population, was to be a source of major dispute between Britain and Ethiopia. | | | This proposal encountered strong Ethiopian opposition, as well as vitriolic condemnation by the Soviet Union, which denounced it as an Imperialist move. |
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| | European Tribune - Community, Politics & Progress. |
| | He continued opposing French rule until his death. | | | Abd himself held the title of Emir, refusing that of Sultan. | | | About twenty years ago a friend I've since lost touch with, an ex-Casablanca French Pied Noir, showed me a handwritten monograph by his grandfather, who had been an intelligence officer in the Rif war. |
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| | Somaliland Net: |
| | Check what is new on somaliland Net - Halkan waxaad ka eegi kartaa waxa ku soo kordhay Somaliland Net ama ku cusub. | | | About 800 troops, including at least 200 from the Special Operations Command, are posted at a base occupied by 3,000 legionnaires and French regulars in the torrid desert republic of Djibouti, the former French Somaliland. | | | WASHINGTON - U.S. troops have been sent to a French Foreign Legion base on the Red Sea for possible raids to grab Al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen, Pentagon officials said yesterday. |
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| | Medals of the Republic of Djibouti (IEPE) |
| | French Somaliland was renamed the Territory of the Afars and Issas on 5 July 1967 and, on 27 June 1977, became the Republic of Djibouti. | | | It became a territory within the French Union in 1946 and increasign self-rule was granted throughout the 1950s. | | | French dominance was established by 1888, and it became a French colony in May 1896, who then reconstituted the region as French Somaliland. |
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| | This territory has been known as French Somaliland and in the last years of the colonial regime was the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. | | | The president is in his 80s so change may be on the way. | | | The French troops in Djibouti supported the Vichy regime during the second world war. |
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| | The French text of the law can be read on the website of the Presidency of Djibouti: http://www.presidence.dj/LES%20TEXTES/decr0163pr97.htm | | | I guess that the Constitution of Djibouti was drafted on the French model. | | | The Dardar of Tadjoura accepted a British Protectorate in 1840 and the Musha Island, in the Gulf of Tadjoura, was given to the United Kingdom. |
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| | They became a separate colony in 1920 and in 1946, they were admitted to the French Union. | | | The colony of Ubangi and Shari were united with Chad in 1905 and joined by Gabon and the Middle Congo in 1910 to form French Equatorial Africa. | | | Chad was joined with Ubangi and Shari in French Equatorial Africa in 1910. |
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| | La Vie Diplomatique, 2 |
| | Several Ethiopian Ministers also had studied in France, and were acquainted with the French language and culture. | | | French culture was in the hands of the Alliance Française, which had established a school in Addis Ababa, as early as October 1907, and another, with 200 students, at Dire Dawa. | | | The French were also to the fore in the medical field, notably at Harar, which provided inter alia for the needs of French citizens resident in the nearby French Somaliland Protectorate. |
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| | Search Results for "Djibouti" |
| | 6) Afars and the Issas, French Territory of the. | | | ...Afars and the Issas, French Territory of the, see Djibouti, republic.... |
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| | The Scotsman - International - Rock star jailed for killing film-star lover |
| | Ms Trintignant, the daughter of the actor Jean-Louis Trintignant, was in Lithuania completing a movie about the French writer Colette. | | | BERTRAND Cantat, a French rock star, was jailed for eight years yesterday after he was convicted of the manslaughter of his film-star girlfriend, Marie Trintignant. | | | Cantat’s wife, Khristina Rady, who the rock singer had left immediately after the birth of their second child in order to be with Ms Trintignant, has steadfastly stuck by her husband, despite an allegation after the actress’s death that he had a history of violence. |
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| | FRENCH - Online Information article about FRENCH |
| | March 1862) between the French government and various Danakil chiefs. | | | The cession of Obok was ratified by a treaty (signed on the 11th of See also: | | | The transference of the seat of government to Jibuti in May 1896 and the building of the railway to Harrar gave the protectorate a stability which it had previously lacked. |
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| | Djibouti - Search Engine & Directory |
| | Alexa search for: French Territory of the Afars and Issas | | | Teoma search for: French Territory of the Afars and Issas | | | Yahoo search for: French Territory of the Afars and Issas |
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| | Second World War Books: History Page |
| | Among provisions of the settlement was free Italian use of the railroad from Addis Ababa to French Somaliland and free access to the port of Djibouti. | | | While 1/2 Punjab returned to Aden after two weeks, 3/15 remained in British Somaliland until June. | | | The port of Berbera being of most importance, but with no suitable terrain for a close perimeter, Chater chose his defensive positions accordingly. |
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| | 'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: Elections, Somaliland |
| | This past week, Yvette's been one of the international election monitors in Somaliland's parliamentary elections. | | | 'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: Elections, Somaliland | | | Please add your own comments that are courteous, fresh, helpful, and to the point |
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| | AllRefer.com - Somalia : History : Independence and Its Aftermath (Somalia Political Geography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Britain proclaimed the end of its protectorate in June, 1960, and on July 1 the legislatures of the two new states created the United Republic of Somalia. | | | The inhabitants of French Somaliland, meanwhile, voted to continue their association with France. | | | In Oct., 2002, a cease-fire accord that also aimed at establishing a federal constitution was signed in Kenya by all the important factions except the Somaliland region. |
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| | Djibouti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The presence of two different population groups was the cause of the civil war in the early 1990s. | | | In the 19th century, France established a protectorate in the area, named French Somaliland, governed by Léonce Lagarde. | | | In 1967, the name was changed to the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. |
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa Somaliland's murder trial starts |
| | Police were deployed around the court and journalists were refused entry. | | | The former British colony of Somaliland declared independence from the rest of Somalia in 1991, when former leader Siad Barre was overthrown and the country descended into anarchy. | | | The two Britons, Richard Eyeington, 62, and his wife Enid, 61, were shot through the window of their flat at a secondary school in Sheikh, 140km (87 miles) north-east of Hargeisa, the region's capital. |
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| | NEW IPRT PUBLICATION |
| | ès in Somaliland during a five-month long stay at IPRT in 2000. | | | Somaliland / essay by Barbara J. Euser / photographs by Patrick Lagès | | | The new publication will be available on May 30, 2002 from IPRT. |
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| | French Somaliland Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography |
| | The presence of two different population groups was the cause of the civil war in the early 1990s. | | | In the 19th century, France established a protectorate in the area, named French Somaliland, governed by Léonce Lagarde. | | | In 1967, the name was changed to the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. |
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| | History of DJIBOUTI |
| | The colony votes in 1958 to stay with France and does so again in a referendum in 1967 (after which it is known as the French Territory of Afars and Issas, from the two main tribal groups). | | | After World War II French Somaliland, like all other French colonies, is given the status of overseas territory within the French Union. | | | But a minority FRUD faction, rejecting the treaty, is still fighting at the end of the decade. |
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| | East Africa, Near East, WW2, Red Sea. Alexandria, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somaliland, Abysinnia, Suez, Canal, Ethiopia, ... |
| | , British, Dominion and Free French forces invade on the 8th from points in Palestine, Jordan and later from Iraqi territory. | | | League of Nations sanctions have little effect and by May 1936 the country has been taken over by Mussolini's forces | | | The Free French enter Damascus on the 21st, but strong resistance continues into July. |
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| | The presence of two population groups gives was the cause of the civil war in the early 1990s. | | | In the 19th century, France established a protectorate in the area, named French Somaliland, governed by Léonce Lagarde. | | | In 1967, the name was changed to the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas. |
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| | This Day in History |
| | Afraid that the British could enter Italian-occupied Ethiopia through French Somaliland, the Duke of Aosta (who was also Viceroy of Ethiopia and supreme Italian military commander of the region) ordered an invasion of British Somaliland. | | | The war for East Africa was not over. | | | But if Italy was to make greater territorial gains, it had to act, while British numbers were still relatively small. |
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| | Kadare, Ismail -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Soon afterward it became the capital of what was known as French Somaliland until 1967. | | | Albanian poet and novelist Ismail Kadare, a resident of Paris since 1990, was hard at work in 1997 revising his collected works, which were being published--some for the first time--in both French and Albanian. | | | Amid the European “scramble for Africa,&; the port of Djibouti was created in 1888 by the French. |
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| | Djibouti Regions |
| | Subsequently, a decree issued 2003-04-09 defined the boundaries of the five regions, the city of Djibouti, and six arrondissements which are subdivisions of the city of Djibouti (Arrondissement du Plateau, Premier Arrondissement,... | | | The name was changed to Afars and Issas, after the two major ethnic groups, in 1967. | | | 1967-07-05: Name of country changed from French Somaliland to French Territory of Afars and Issas (French: Côte Française des Somalis to Territoire Français des Afars et des Issas). |
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