2018 In Djibouti
Events in the year 2018 in Djibouti. Incumbents *President: Ismaïl Omar Guelleh *Prime Minister: Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed Events 23 February – Djiboutian parliamentary election, 2018 19 May - Cyclone Sagar makes landfall, kills 2 in Djibouti and affects 20,000 others Deaths *18 March – Barkat Gourad Hamadou, former Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ... (b. 1930). References {{Year in Africa , 2018 2010s in Djibouti Years of the 21st century in Djibouti Djibouti Djibouti ...
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Djibouti
Djibouti, officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia to the south, Ethiopia to the southwest, Eritrea in the north, and the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to the east. The country has an area of . In antiquity, the territory, together with Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somaliland, was part of the Land of Punt. Nearby Zeila, now in Somaliland, was the seat of the medieval Adal Sultanate, Adal and Ifat Sultanate, Ifat Sultanates. In the late 19th century, the colony of French Somaliland was established after the ruling Dir (clan), Dir, Somali people, Somali, and Afar people, Afar sultans signed treaties with the French, and its Imperial Ethiopian Railway, railroad to Dire Dawa (and later Addis Ababa) allowed it to quickly supersede Zeila as the port for southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden. It was renamed the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas in 1967. A decade later, the Djiboutian people 1977 Afars and Issas independence referendu ...
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