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Hardline FRUD leader returns from exile

Ahmed Dini, president of the hardline, armed faction of the Afar Front pour la Restauration de l’Unite et la Democratie (FRUD) returned to Djibouti on Wednesday morning after nine years in exile, Agence France Presse reported. The return from Yemen of Dini follows a peace deal between the government and FRUD in February which provided for a cessation of hostilities, a general amnesty for all FRUD combatants in exile, and the liberation of prisoners held by both sides, it added. FRUD was launched as a rebel movement in 1991 by the Afars - the country’s second largest community, living mainly in the northern half of the country. One faction made peace and a coalition with the government in 1994, while Dini’s FRUD “combattant” remained committed to armed resistance.

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