[
US
/dʒɪˈbuˌti/
]
NOUN
- port city on the Gulf of Aden; the capital and largest city of Djibouti
- a country in northeastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; formerly under French control but became independent in 1997
How To Use Djibouti In A Sentence
- a Djiboutian storyteller
- A diplomat from Djibouti , a country in the Horn of Africa, provides a clue.
- We just landed in an open field in those days and there seemed to be just one shed for an airport, and we were all feeling a bit airsick because of this bumpy journey up from Djibouti.
- Some of Nepad's major projects still in the pipeline include a fibre optic submarine cable on the East Coast to connect Durban and Djibouti and the Inga III project in the Congo.
- The cargo was contained in hundreds of plastic jerrycans, ten of which had spilled, contaminating a considerable area of Djibouti port.
- In recent years there has been a growing number of politicians and intellectuals who write memoirs or reflections on Djibouti society and its problems, but virtually all of them publish in France.
- There are two major ethnic groups in Djibouti, the Afars (sometimes also called the Danakil) and the Somalis.
- Djibouti's poor take refuge in slums on the city outskirts, constructing shelters from corrugated iron and other scrap material.
- They recaptured Djibouti at the end of 1942.
- Djiboutian merchants
