Afars and Issas
From Stamps of the World
The Afars and Issas tribes live in an area of 8,500 square miles of semi-desert which was formally French Somaliland. Their names were given to the territory when it became independent a French Overseas territory in May 1967. Stamps bearing the new title were issued in August 1967. Afars and Issas became independent and was renamed Djibouti in 1977.
