Omar Guelleh

In the face of growing internal opposition to his arbitrary rule and stolen elections President Ismail Omar Guelleh has been strengthening relations with Sudan (AC Vol 52 No 7)...

All opposition groups will boycott the contest leaving only President Ismail Omar Guelleh and Mohamed Warsama Ragueh a former President of the Cour Constitutionnelle on the ballot (AC Vol 52 No 6)...

Ethiopia says Eritrea is also trying to subvert Djibouti whose President Ismail Omar Guelleh is an Ethiopian ally (see Feature)...

Only Mohammed Warsama a former president of the Cour Constitutionelle with a negligible political base is standing against President Ismail Omar Guelleh...

President Ismail Omar Guelleh summoned a committee of Somali intellectuals with a view to a national reconciliation conference in April but this may be delayed until June or July...

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...

The downgrading of Djibouti where the USA bases its Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonier became certain with the signing of the Abu Dhabi base agreement although Sarkozy had lavished assurances on President Ismaël Omar Guelleh when he visited France in December...