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• Republic of Djibouti (1977–present) • 1 Hassan Gouled Aptidon (1915–2006) 1977 1981 1987 1993: 18 May 1977 8 May 1999 RPP: 2 Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (born 1946) 1999 2005 2011 2016 2021: 8 May 1999 Incumbent RPP
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The history of Djibouti is recorded in the poetry and songs of its nomadic people, and goes back thousands of years to a time when the peoples of Djibouti traded hides and skins for the perfumes and spices of ancient Egypt, India, and China. Afar Oral Literature is also quite musical.
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This list is complete through 1998. Hassan Gouled Aptidon, president (1978) [6]; Robert Baden-Powell (1982) [7]; Alexander Graham Bell (1977, as an overprint on a stamp of the French Territory of the Afars and Issas) [8]
Djibouti gained its independence on June 27, 1977. The Djibouti area, along with other localities in the Horn region, was later the seat of the medieval Adal and Ifat Sultanates. In the late 19th century, the colony of French Somaliland was established following treaties signed by the ruling Somali and Afar Sultans with the French.
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