DJIBOUTI: DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE DELIVERED

UNCLAS DJIBOUTI 000097 SIPDIS DEPARTMENT FOR AF/E AND OES/S NANCY CARTER-FOSTER E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: ELTN SOCI DJ SUBJECT: DJIBOUTI: DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE DELIVERED REF: 10 STATE 6703 ¶1. Poloff discussed reftel points January 25 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Multilateral Relations Mariam Ahmed Goumaneh. Goumaneh indicated that while the GODJ was concerned about road safety, the specific issue of text messaging while driving had not been addressed in Djibouti. She said that the GODJ currently had no plans to address this issue. ¶2. Djibouti has no laws forbidding text messaging while driving. Law enforcement officials have no records on reported accidents due to talking on the phone or text messaging while driving. Djibouti Telecom, the state-run telecommunications monopoly, reports 130,000 mobile telephone subscribers in the country, or an estimated sixteen percent of the total population. SWAN