Djibouti

Djibouti City, the eponymous capital and largest city of Djibouti. *Photo from Wikipedia June 27 is Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Djibouti from France in 1977. In the late 19th century, the colony of French Somaliland was established following treaties signed by the ruling Somali and Afar sultans with the French and its railroad to Dire Dawa (and later Addis Ababa) allowed it to quickly supersede Zeila as the port for southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden. It was subsequently renamed to the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas in 1967. A decade later, the Djiboutian people voted