Omar Guelleh

Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh is accused by Elisabeth Borrel's legal team of having ordered the murder and of pressuring French lawyers and witnesses...

President Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti said three weeks ago that Ethiopia had genuine security concerns about the ICU; 30 Somalian members of parliament who sought refuge there have been moved on out of Djibouti several of them to Asmara...

A former presidential guard Mohamed Saleh Alhoumekani claims that Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh (who was intelligence chief in 1995) ordered Borrel's killing...

It has received vague assurances of support from President Ismail Omar Guelleh in Djibouti and a recent delegation there visited the embassies of Libya Qatar and Yemen...

The elections were unexciting as President Ismaël Omar Guelleh standing for the ruling Union pour la Majorité Présidentielle (UMP) was the only candidate after the opposition coalition the Union pour l'Alternance Démocratique (UAD) decided to boycott the vote because of what it called gross electoral irregularities...

Logically Djibouti which hosts tens of thousands of US troops ready for the Iraq war should be an enthusiastic supporter of the US strategy but President Ismael Omar Guelleh is chary of provoking local anti-war feeling or Islamist groups in the region...

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh's UMP will win despite his growing unpopularity...

President Ismail Omar Guelleh's government still backs the TNG it founded and wants negotiations between it and its opposition...

President Ismail Omar Guelleh safe in the shrinking arms of France is once again exploiting Eritrea to balance the threat of Ethiopian domination...

He had wanted to retire when President Ismail Omar Guelleh (AC Vol 40 No 13) took over from his uncle Hassan Gouled Aptidon in 1999 but was persuaded to stay to provide continuity as the government's senior Afar representative...