Les explorations du lieutenant C. J. Cruttenden en Somalie (1)

Memoir on the Western or Edoor Tribes, Inhabiting the Somali Coast of N.-E. Africa, with the Southern Branches of the Family of Darrood, Resident on the Banks of the Webbe Shebeyli, Commonly Called the River Webbe, par C. J. Cruttenden, The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, 1849, 19 (1849), p. 49-76

With reference to the slave trade, the position of Zeyla is important. It is the sea-port of Hurrur, and it commands Tajoura and Berbera, the only available places of export: and when the time arrives for the final suppression of the slave-trade on the north-eastern coast of Africa, the numerous advantages held out by Zeyla will be duly appreciated. Hurrur depends for its foreign supplies solely on Berbera and Zeyla, and were these two ports cut off from the merchants, so far as regards the trade of slaves, it must prove a death-blow to the slave-commerce through that province from Abyssinia and Guragi. Berbera once forbidden, Tajoura is the only remaining outlet, and that outlet, thanks to the marauding habits of the Esa Somal and others, is much more frequently closed than open.

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Programme ANR “MedOcean” (ANR-24-CE27-5652)

A l’issue de l’appel à projets générique 2024, le programme de recherches MedOcean (ANR-24-CE27-5652), dont le GIS “Méditerranée-Océan Indien” forme le consortium et dont le coordinateur est Pierre Schneider a été sélectionné.

Il commencera le 1er janvier 2025, pour une durée de 48 mois.

Ce carnet de recherches dans son ensemble, et cette catégorie en particulier, seront le support de valorisation de MedOcean tout au long de ces quatre ans.