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1976 Loyada Hostage Situation
On 3 February 1976, independence activists of the Somali Coastal Liberation Front (FLCS) took a school bus hostage in Djibouti, then located in the French territory of the Afars and Issas (TFAI). The next day, a company of parachute legionnaires and members of the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) assaulted the bus, killed the kidnappers present and freed most of the hostages.

This event, by showing the difficulties of maintaining the French colonial presence in Djibouti, is an important step in the attainment of the territory's independence.