Thus, Mr Gouled's Popular Rally for Progress party won every seat and the war went on. It ended in 1994 with a power-sharing deal which brought the main faction of Frud into government. A splinter, radical faction continued to fight until 2000, when it too signed a peace deal with the government of Gouled's successor,Michael Kors, Ismael Omar Guelleh.

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It all reminds me of the party of Aztecs who - readers of the Peter Simple column will recall - took over the reference library in Victoria Road, Nerdley, some years ago, claiming that it was one of the sites their ancestors occupied in the Dark Ages after crossing the ocean in stone boats.

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