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French Somaliland

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French Somaliland
See Djibouti.
French Somaliland
n
(Placename) a former name (until 1967) of Djibouti
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But on Boxing Day the Echo reported that Italy was massing troops on the border of French Somaliland while even Beverley Baxter, in a rare mood of gloom, looked back at 1938 as a time of trouble with "terrible civil war in Spain, terrible casualties in China and the Jewish problem of 1938.
Christmas spirit hard to come by as world war drew ever nearer; Time ... by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
The country has recently finished a civil war between the two major tribes, the Afars and the Issas (originally a French colony, before being named French Somaliland it was known as the Land of the Afars and the Issas).
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43 Named French Somaliland and then French Territory of the Afars and Issas during colonial rule, under what name did this country become independent in 1977?
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