Dikhil

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Location of Dikhil in Djibouti

Dikhil is a town in western Djibouti in the region of the same name, lying east of Lake Abbe. Located on the paved highway that runs east from Djibouti City, this town is home to a population of around 30,000 people.

When Wilfred Thesiger visited Dikhil May 1934, he was struck by "a most impregnable fort here" recently constructed by the French colonial authorities. "The walls are twenty feet high, loop-holed, and topped with broken glass and a barbed-wire entanglement. There are two large observation towers." He believed that garrison stationed there provided its only economic support, for had "the site any real value it would have been used before this by the natives."[1]

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  1. ^ Wilfred Thesiger, The Danakil Diary: Journeys through Abyssinia, 1930-4 (Hammersmith: Flamingo, 1996), p. 184.
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Coordinates: 11°07′N 42°22′E

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