Ismaïl Omar Guelleh

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...

Yacin Yabeh President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh is rounding up dissidents and collecting arms...

Abdulkassim was elected by the Transitional National Assembly meeting since May at Arta in Djibouti (where some 2000 Somalis had gathered) and urged on by President Ismail Omar Guelleh...

Hundreds of participants (some picked by Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh and his team some self-selected) finally chose enough acceptable delegates to fill clan quotas...

It is very much a Djibouti government initiative: it is to be held in the country and the proposals to be discussed were launched by President Ismail Omar Guelleh at the United Nations General Assembly last September (AC Vol 41 No 1)...

In Somalia both the UN and European Union will support yet another reconciliation conference as proposed by Djibouti's new President Ismail Omar Guelleh...