The French Territory of the Afars and the Issas became Djibouti in 1977. Hassan Gouled APTIDON installed an authoritarian one-party state and proceeded to serve as president until 1999. Unrest among t

HISTORY OF DJIBOUTI French overseas territory: AD 1946-1977 After World War II French Somaliland, like all other French colonies, is given the status of overseas territory within the French Un