The idol has come sliding down its pedestal to fawn and grovel with all the other infatuates in the dust about my feet.

The outbreak of ethnic violence in 1991 severely strained Djiboutian-French Relations. Paris, which had deployed troops in March to disarm Ethiopian soldiers fleeing into Djibouti, dismissed the government's claims that Ethiopian Afars were seeking to establish a “greater Afaria” and in October ordered its troops to remain in their barracks.

DENDROMANCY: This is associated with both the oak and the mistletoe.

The crop output this year has been comparatively small, owing to the deficit in rainfall.