Djibouti in the News

When searching for news articles and current events in Djibouti, I had a difficult time finding any that were directly to the country. However, I did run across a few conflicts in which Djibouti is involved, and also some incidents not involving conflict, but smaller accidents within or around the country.
One of the first things I ran across that caught my attention, which is not directly affecting my county, but still very important, is the recent fighting putting Somali troops and Ethiopian allies against Islamic insurgents. The fighting has killed more than 1000 civilians and wounded 4300 in capitol of Somalia, Mogadishu. In regards to Djibouti, ethnic Somalis want to incorporate other ethnic Somalis from Djibouti, as well as eastern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya. The fighting has been going on for many years now and the present fighting is the worst in more than 15 years. The U.N. refugee agency says 124,000 have fled Mogadishu since early February.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/04/10/somalia.fighting.ap/index.html

In other news, at least 69 people recently died after a boat capsized in the Red Sea just off the coast of Djibouti. The Vessel was carrying more than 200 passengers on its way from the port of Djibouti to Tadjouara. The were on their way to a religious festival. Many have still not been accounted for.
http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=Djibouti&uri=%2F%2Fhome%2Fsystem%2Fwww%2Fmediaselector%2Fcheck%2Fnb_checkedBandwidth%3Fm%3D%2F%2Fhome%2Fsystem%2Fwww%2Fmediaselector%2Fcheck%26redirect%26checkedBandwidth%3Dnb%26checkedMedia%3Dram%26subtitles%3Dhide%26alreadySeen%3D1