Ismaïl Omar Guelleh

In the past Eritrea supported FRUD to deter President Ismail Omar Guelleh from getting too close to Ethiopia...

FRUD dissidents backed by Eritrea may undermine Afar cooperation with the Somali Issas but any serious political threat will require Issa support and Eritrea has also been talking to exiled Issa politicians including the wealthy and highly influential businessman Abdurahman Boreh a former close associate of President Ismail Omar Guelleh who is now in exile...

Its Afar people resent President Ismail Omar Guelleh’s regime...

Djibouti’s President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh told IGAD about his efforts for a diplomatic solution and visited Qatar at the beginning of June to ask Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani to mediate with his friend Issayas who had stopped off there a few days earlier on his way from Iran to Eritrea...

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh visited the area only on 22 April and asked Eritrea's ally Qatar to help...

Relations with France are likely to recover from the ramifications of the death in 1995 of Judge Bernard Borrel whose charred body was found outside Djibouti (AC Vol 48 No 15); President Ismail Omar Guelleh was implicated by one of his guards in the killing...

Police raids on the house of ex-President Jacques Chirac's Africa advisor Michel de Bonnecourse on 9 and 10 July raise the stakes in the investigation into claims by a former Djibouti presidential guard Mohamed Saleh Alhoumekani that President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh ordered the murder of French judge Bernard Borrel (AC Vol 47 No 22)...

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...