Sources: Djibouti

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• Reference work · Independent publication

  1967 French Somaliland independence referendum (Wikipedia) link

  General-reference encyclopedia article, consulted via citation, on the 19 March 1967 referendum (60.60% to remain French, 39.40% for independence), held after President Charles de Gaulle ordered it following 1966 rioting during his visit, and on the French deportation of roughly 6,000 ethnic Somalis to Somalia between August 1966 and March 1967 ahead of the vote.

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• News report · Independent publication

  French Somaliland: Victory for Trouble (Time, 1967) link

  Contemporary news account, consulted via citation, corroborating the pre-referendum expulsion of Somali residents and describing the disputed, contested character of the 1967 vote.

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• Reference work · Scholarly work

  Nohlen, Dieter; Krennerich, Michael and Thibaut, Bernhard, Elections in Africa: A Data Handbook (Oxford University Press, 1999)

  Scholarly reference handbook giving the results of the 8 May 1977 referendum on independence for French Somaliland (Djibouti); consulted via its citation on the referendum's Wikipedia summary rather than the book itself, since the book text was not directly available to this research pass.

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• Reference work · Scholarly work

  Shillington, Kevin, Encyclopedia of African History (Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005)

  Scholarly reference encyclopedia giving the 27 June 1977 independence date for Djibouti; consulted via its citation rather than the book itself, since the book text was not directly available to this research pass.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly resolution 3480 (XXX): Question of French Somaliland (United Nations, 11 December 1975) link

  Calls upon France to grant immediate and unconditional independence to French Somaliland (Djibouti); records the territory's decolonisation history and the liberation movements active at the time.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly resolution 32/1: Admission of the Republic of Djibouti to membership in the United Nations (United Nations, 20 September 1977) link

  Records the decision to admit the Republic of Djibouti, taken at the 1st plenary meeting on 20 September 1977.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly resolution 2228 (XXI): Question of French Somaliland (United Nations, 20 December 1966) link

  Adopted 20 December 1966 (95 in favour, 1 against, 18 abstentions); reaffirmed the territory's inalienable right to self-determination and noted the announcement that a referendum on the territory's political future would be held before July 1967.

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• Intergovernmental document · Intergovernmental organisation

  United Nations Security Council, Security Council resolution 412 (1977) (United Nations, 7 July 1977) link

  Recommends Djibouti's admission to UN membership, adopted unanimously on 7 July 1977.

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