Regionally the offensive has warmed Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to Hassan Sheikh and the marriage of the former head of the Mogadishu police Sadeeq Joon to the daughter of President of Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has done him no harm...

Neither the Somali regional government nor Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh himself an Issa born in Ethiopia would find this acceptable...

Just one of the people irked by this process will be President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti where the IGAD secretariat is based on whose territory Eritrea has a claim...

(Muse Bihi's protest against the move was also a friendly gesture towards Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh who is convinced that Muse Bihi only won Somaliland's elections last November thanks to financial support from the UAE through Abdourahman Boreh Guelleh's arch-enemy – AC Vol 57 No 5 Guelleh's court shame)...

A week earlier the government of President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh had announced that it was severing its contract with DP World at the Doraleh container terminal at Djibouti Port...

Human rights campaigners and a main opposition party are targeted by a severe crackdown overseen by President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh amid apparent international indifference...

That has not stood in the way of Saudi approaches to President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh's regime and the kingdom is believed to be in the process of setting up a base in Djibouti alongside several other countries (AC Vol 57 No 15 Saudi wants one too)...

Djibouti's President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh beamed through the ceremony: he has wrung almost every ounce of diplomatic and commercial advantage out of his country's location and the region's geopolitics...