The Afar Democratic Union ( French : Union Democratique Afar , UDA) was a political party of the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas .
6-650: Created in 1960–1961 by Orbiss Gaddito and Mohamed Kamil Mohamed, the party was joined by Ali Aref Bourhan and Ahmed Dini in 1962. The UDA won the territorial elections in 1963. In 1965, Ali Aref left the UDA after losing control of the party, instead creating the Afar Democratic Rally (RDA). The UDA was close to the Party of Popular Movement (PMP), with which it organized an independence demonstration in August 1966. It supported
12-665: The local political scene, having been exiled to Cairo by the French authorities. He died in a plane crash two years later under mysterious circumstances. In 1960, with the fall of the ruling Dini administration, Bourhan assumed the seat of Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland, representing the UNI party. He would hold that position until 1966. This was because he announced his to resign decision on Radio Djibouti that he would devote himself more fully to preparing for
18-462: The maintenance of the territory under French sovereignty in the March 1967 referendum. This article about an African political party is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Djibouti -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ali Aref Bourhan Ali Aref Bourhan ( Arabic : علي عارف برهان ; born 1934) is a Djiboutian politician. Bourhan
24-776: The next referendum that will determine the political future. In July of the following year, he was elected President of the Government Council of the French Territory of the Afars and the Issas . Bourhan served in that capacity until July 29, 1976, the eve of Djibouti's independence. He was succeeded in office by Abdallah Mohamed Kamil . He becomes engaged on May 15, 1971 in Carcassonne with Régine Soulé.They divorced in 1980. Ali Aref married second time on May 14, 2014 in Kempeski Palace with
30-650: The then Sultan of Tadjoura . Through the latter, he was introduced to Mahmoud Harbi , the Vice President of the Government Council of French Somaliland and a former comrade of the Sultan in the French army during the World War II campaign. Bourhan would subsequently serve in the territory's representative council as a Harbist politician, strongly supporting Harbi's independence-oriented platform. In 1958, Harbi disappeared from
36-468: Was born in 1934 in the coastal city of Tadjoura , situated in eastern present-day Djibouti . He hailed from a prominent local Afar family, the Abourbakers. He also has a Gadabursi grandmother from Zeila . As a young man in the 1950s, Bourhan began his professional career as a teacher. He also ran the town's Afar and Somali youth club. Bourhan entered politics under the aegis of Ibrahim Sultan,
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