Paper short abstract:

The Rope of Africa is an unstable region because of almost and famines which raged for more than two decades and drain an importing mass.

Paper long abstract:

For several decades, countries in the Horn of Africa, especially Somalia and Ethiopia, have been identified as a theatre for ceaseless wars and chronic starvation.

Due to this situation a significant number of citizens from local populations have thronged to the Republic of Djibouti.

The latter has been politically stable since it became an independent nation in 1977, and hence its population has increased.

The city of Djibouti stays an important and fundamental stage on the migratory road of the Horn of Africa bound for the Arabian peninsula and also the ultimate and last stage before the boat ves the countries of the gulf in particular Yemen then towards Saudi Arabia.

Our analysis will concern to the Ethiopian and Somalian migrants in transit or living in Djibouti-city.

We shall emphasize the role of temporality (length of stay in Djibouti, the daily survival in town, time(weather) the migratory project, the migratory route(course) and its difficulties as well as the networks) in the urban practices of these migrants, in terms of welcome(reception), work, accommodation(housing) and their insertion in the urban dynamics of the city of Djibouti which groups(includes) more than 70 % of the total population of the Republic of Djibouti.