The Nation of Djibouti

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Introduction
Djibouti is a tiny nation in Africa's northeastern region. Djibouti, the country's sole 'big city,' gave it its moniker. Djibouti is a nation in Africa's Horn. It lies in the north bordering Eritrea, west, and south bordering Ethiopia, and southeast on Somalia. The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden shoreline are to the east. Encarta Djibouti said that it was a place where people started migrating to the Middle East many years ago (100,000). Anyway, Encarta goes on and on about various kingdoms and how Islam was brought to the nation before finally getting anything useful. According to the book, Europeans began exchanging coffee and fragrances with the sultanates of Djibouti in the second half of the 16th century.
Colonial History
In 1884, France had taken over the Djibouti region, known as French Somalia. It remained in the French Republic as the territory of Afars and Issas until 1977, when, despite competing Ethiopian and Somali claims, it achieved independence. It subsequently sought to stay impartial in Ethiopia's and Somalia's wars. Djibouti became formally a one-party state in 1981 under the leadership of a directly elected President. Djibouti's first president, Hassan Gouled Option, was re-elected in 1981 and 1987. During the Persian Gulf War of 1991, the nation became the basis for French operations. A military insurrection centered in the north, which started in late 1991, quickly seized control of most of the nation.
In 1992, the Option Constitution was presented, which was adopted by the electorate in September. In 1993, Djibouti won a fourth term in his first presidential multi-party election, although many of the opposition boycotted the elections and continued civil disputes. In December 1997 Aptidon's Party won every seat during national parliamentary elections and three years after reaching a peace deal to end the civil conflict and give ethnic Afar rebels representation in the Government (Daniel, p.2855). He declared in 1999 that he would not be elected because of his health. The head of staff of Option, Ismael Omar Guelé, won almost 75% of the vote as a common candidate for the ruling Progressive People's Rally and the Restore Unity and Democracy Front in April 1999. (FREUD). A second peace agreement was concluded in February 2000 between the government and the extreme FRUD wing maintained its anti-government fight.