Vol 65 No 16 |
- ETHIOPIA
- SOMALIA
Signed on 1 January the MoU has escalated tensions between Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh and Somaliland as the pact could sink Djibouti's economy...
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President Ismail Omar Guelleh's government is walking a diplomatic tightrope to retain its neutrality since the Israel-Hamas conflict tipped into nearby waters...
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Presidents Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh did not pay attention...
Eventually Ismaïl Omar Guelleh got Muse Bihi to appoint a technical team to discuss with another team in Mogadishu led by Abdikarim Hussein Guled...
Hassan Sheikh saw that Djibouti and Eritrea would be natural allies against the Ethiopia-Somaliland deal and quickly arranged meetings with Presidents Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Issayas Afewerki...
It also reflects the mood after the multiple meetings attended by Burhan in November with regional leaders some of whom he was at loggerheads with: Kenya's William Ruto (14 November); Ethiopia's Abiy Ahmed (on 15 November); Djibouti's Ismaïl Omar Guelleh and Eritrea's Issayas Aferwerki (26 November)...
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Vol 64 No 17 |
- KENYA
- SOMALIA
Reports that Kenya's President William Ruto had asked his Djiboutian counterpart Ismail Omar Guelleh to work as a mediator on the maritime border were shot down by Somalia's State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Mohamed Omar at a hearing with a committee of Kenyan MPs...
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Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh also failed to attend...
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Regionally the offensive has warmed Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to Hassan Sheikh and the marriage of the former head of the Mogadishu police Sadeeq Joon to the daughter of President of Ismail Omar Guelleh of Djibouti has done him no harm...
Neither the Somali regional government nor Djibouti President Ismail Omar Guelleh himself an Issa born in Ethiopia would find this acceptable...
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It would also present a dilemma to Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh who has backed Abiy to date but is trying to distance his country from direct involvement in the fighting...
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Djibouti's interior ministry announced on 10 April that President Ismail Omar Guelleh had won 97% of the votes cast...
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