"Authorities used batons and tear gas against thousands of protesters in the tiny nation of Djibouti yesterday, the latest rally modeled after demonstrations across Africa and the Middle East, activists said.
President Ismail Omar Guelleh has served two terms and faces an election in April, but his family has been in power for more than three decades, and yesterday’s rally was aimed at getting him to step down.
Djibouti is a city-state of 750,000 people that lies across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen. It hosts several military bases, including the only US base in Africa....
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