DJIBOUTI’S government signed a peace accord with ethnic Afar rebels on Saturday to formally end a decade-old uprising in the Horn of Africa country. The accord was signed by Interior Minister Abdallah Abdillahi Miguil and Ahmed Dini, head of the radical wing of the rebel Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD), and followed a ceasefire signed in Paris in February last year. “This accord enshrines peace in our political environment,” Dini said in a speech at the signing ceremony. Dini heads a faction of FRUD which had refused to lay down its arms in 1994, when the group’s other wing decided to join the ruling People’s Rally for Progress party in governing the former French colony.