Omar Guelleh

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...

At September's United Nations General Assembly Djiboutian President Ismael Omar Guelleh offered to host a new Somali reconciliation conference while suggesting that: Somali civil society take greater responsibility regional organisations use all necessary means to achieve a solution and warlords be charged with crimes against humanity...

Other candidates for the role of Somalia's national mediator include the new Djiboutian President Ismael Omar Guelleh...

French officials were taken aback by the success of the visit to Paris on 24-29 May by Djibouti's new President Ismael Omar Guelleh...

The probable winner Ismael Omar Guelleh is chief of the private office of the aged and ailing outgoing President Hassan Gouled Aptidon...

Since the government’s base is perceived as being among the Issa clan Ismael Omar Guelleh has sought to appeal to others such as the Gadabourssi...

Ismael Omar Guelleh makes much of his experience in dealing with neighbouring states...

Nomination by the ruling Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès on 4 February has formally set Ismael Omar Guelleh on the path to succeed Hassan Gouled Aptidon who steps down in May...