Djibouti

Proper noun

Djibouti

1. A country in East Africa. Official name: Republic of Djibouti.
   • The US officials added that that the situation has angered Djiboutian government officials, and that the US military in Djibouti has messaged back to Washington “significant concerns” over keeping the detainees there and the possible impact on military relations.2025 May 22, Haley Britzky, Priscilla Alvarez and Natasha Bertrand, “Deported migrant detainees are holding at a US Naval base in Djibouti amid court fight, officials say”, in CNN
2. The capital city of Djibouti.
   • The French have been having a great deal of trouble at Djibouti with a tribe of the interior, the Issas, who are vehemently opposed to the progress of the railway through their country. Throughout the first half of March, raids were incessant on parties in and about the town itself. A detachment of...1899 April 8, “Notes”, in Saturday Review, volume 87, number 2267, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 418, column 1