Loyada

Region

Loyada is a small town in the easternmost part of the Arta region of Djibouti, on the border region Awdal in Somalia or the de facto independent Somaliland.

France and Great Britain in 1888 attracted the border between British Somaliland and Djibouti from the French Loyada in the north to the south Jaldessa. The town's name is derived from Afar le- le- ʿ ʿ Adu or adó, which translates as "white freshwater place " means and the spoofing in Somali to Loowya ʿ Adde " with white calves ." The French colonial authorities used the notation Loyada, the letters on standard Somaliland is Lawya caddo.

1976 brought armed Somali independence fighters, who were supported by the government of Somalia, in Loyada a bus carrying children in their violence and abducted them as hostages to Somalia. So they wanted to blackmail the independence of the French colony. Two of the children were killed in the hostage crisis, which ended by the French Foreign Legion.

In Loyada is the only official border crossing between Djibouti and Somaliland / Somalia. The end of 1999 and during the year 2000 closed Djibouti and Somaliland transition several times because of political differences. 2002 improved relations under the new president of Somaliland, Dahir Riyale Kahin, and it was agreed to open the border in Loyada again. The UNHCR has set up in Loyada a receiving point for Somali refugees.

2002 Loyada was spun off from the capital region of Djibouti and became part of the newly established region of Arta.

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• Location in Djibouti
• Place in Africa