Full Coverage: Djibouti

07.11.2006 "Sometimes I walk a long way to visit with women in their camps, but they don't always want to listen and sometimes they don't have time to talk. But I keep going--now we know things we didn't know before and we can be healthier," says Saida.

05.04.2006 The Djibouti authorities have arrested and expelled an International Labour Office representative tasked with investigating the trade union situation and are refusing entry to an international trade union mission.

08.02.2006 A major crisis has hit the Horn of Africa, where a severe drought is endangering an estimated 1.5 million children under the age of five, the UN Children's Fund said yesterday.

11.06.2003 Djibouti has etched out a 20-year ICT strategy and action plan. With the aim of transforming the country, 30 ICT projects have been planned, keeping in mind the basic issues of poverty, health and sanitation, among other things.

08.04.2003 President Ismaïl Omar Guellah of Djibouti is supporting a national strategy to move the country into the digital age by 2010 to promote development and reduce poverty. The ministry of communication and culture has prepared the national ICT strategy with UNDP's help.

20.02.2002 Workers in the Port of Djibouti are at risk from 10 plastic shipping containers leaking a toxic wood preservative used on telegraph poles, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned yesterday.

14.06.2001 Traders openly selling hides and shells from endangered animals in a Djibouti city centre marketplace have been raided as part of a government clampdown.

13.06.2000 The UN unveils a plan to avert a health crisis that would affect more than 13 million people in the Horn.

13.06.2000 A United Nations agency has launched a special action plan in the Horn of Africa in a bid to save 13.4 million people from plunging into a severe health crisis.