None of his rivals: Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf former Mauritius Foreign Minister Anil Kumarsingh Gayan and Richard James Randriamandrato a former Foreign Minister of Madagascar have anything close to his name recognition political experience or the diplomatic machinery to compete with Kenya's networks...
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Vol 65 No 18 |
- HORN OF AFRICA
The offer by Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf that would give Ethiopia access to the port of Tadjoura about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the border with Ethiopia looks like the most serious and credible attempt to ease tensions that are threatening to engulf the Horn of Africa region (AC Vol 65 No 16 Djibouti joins fight against the Abiy-Bihi pact)...
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Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf has also banned Democracy International the United States Agency for International Development-funded election observer organisation...
Vol 49 No 11 |
- DJIBOUTI
- ERITREA
Proposed meetings between Eritrean and Djiboutian officials failed to materialise and Eritrea refused to see Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf...