Word: djibouti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advertisements which can be placed on the web site. If the 124th Editorial Guard takes this crucial step, The Crimson will be vaulted from a paper read on a small college campus in Cambridge to a publication read by anyone with a web connection anywhere in the world, from Djibouti to Nepal...
Northern forces shelled southern Yemen's former capital, Aden, reportedly killing at least 60 people, mostly civilians, and injuring more than 170. Amid warnings of new attacks by the northern brigades as they continued to advance toward the city limits, 900 foreigners fled the besieged port by ferry for Djibouti, in the biggest evacuation from Aden since the civil war began...
...authored by novelist Alice Walker. Walker sees it as a heinous form of patriarchal oppression, characterized by "the feeling of being overpowered and thoroughly dominated by those you are duty bound to respect." About 25 countries in Africa engage in mutilation: an estimated 98% of women are "circumcised" in Djibouti and Somalia, 90% in Ethiopia, 80% in Sudan, 75% in Mali. Walker and her allies have called for change not only in American law but also in the way African nations enforce their legal bans against the tradition...
...that challenge in many ways. Perhaps the most dramatic was her visit last year to Eritrea, which had just won a 30-year war of independence from Ethiopia and had promptly shut down the airport and all other means of communication with the outside world. Michaels flew to neighboring Djibouti, chartered an Arab dhow to the Red Sea port of Mesewa and hitched a ride for the final 71 miles to the Eritrean capital, Asmara...
...attract deposits, B.C.C.I. opened magnificent offices even in poor surroundings. No matter how incongruous, the facilities were lavishly decorated with Persian rugs and sumptuous paintings. "Walk down the main street in Djibouti," says a Western banker, "and you'll see a building with a marble facade. That's B.C.C.I. On the two buildings on either side, the plaster will be breaking and falling...