US Secretary of State John Kerry showed that when he paid President Ismael Omar Guelleh a quiet visit in May the same month that China announced plans to open a military base in the country reportedly near the port of Obock (AC Vol 56 No 10 Grandstanding Guelleh)...
President Ismail Omar Guelleh uses the security threats and the importance of the US base to get the West to support him and ignore the fact he intends to defy the constitution and run again as President next year...
President Ismail Omar Guelleh and his Union pour la majorité présidentielle had an easy victory in the 22 February polls taking 49 of 65 National Assembly seats...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 11 |
- JAPAN
- AFRICA
On his tour of Bahrain Kuwait and Qatar Abe also stopped over in Djibouti on 27 August to discuss piracy in the Indian Ocean and the security situation in Somalia with President Ismail Omar Guelleh's government...
Li and President Ismail Omar Guelleh met privately to discuss Djibouti’s role in the railway project...
Vol 52 No 11 |
- DJIBOUTI
- SUDAN
In the face of growing internal opposition to his arbitrary rule and stolen elections President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been strengthening relations with Sudan (AC Vol 52 No 7)...
All opposition groups will boycott the contest leaving only President Ismail Omar Guelleh and Mohamed Warsama Ragueh a former President of the Cour Constitutionnelle on the ballot (AC Vol 52 No 6)...
Ethiopia says Eritrea is also trying to subvert Djibouti whose President Ismail Omar Guelleh is an Ethiopian ally (see Feature)...
Only Mohammed Warsama a former president of the Cour Constitutionelle with a negligible political base is standing against President Ismail Omar Guelleh...
President Ismail Omar Guelleh summoned a committee of Somali intellectuals with a view to a national reconciliation conference in April but this may be delayed until June or July...