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Djibouti

Health scare for president

Speculation over the state of president Ismail Omar Guelleh’s heath spilled over into moments of panic at Haramous on the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.06.2017

Guelleh shuts down 3G

Djibouti’s 3G network has been seriously disrupted in recent days. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.06.2017

Spotlight
Touchroad's Djibouti empire teetering on brink of collapse

Arriving with much fanfare in Djibouti in 2014, He Liehui, boss of the Shanghai based Touchroad International Holdings Group, seems to have sown only disappointment and broken promises ever since. And that could threaten his romance with Ismail Omar Guelleh’s [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.05.2017

Guelleh lets media frenzy engulf Djama Speed

According to our sources, Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh is deliberately allowing his fellow citizens to focus their attention on [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.05.2017

Is Guelleh courting the armed wing of FRUD ?

According to our sources, president Ismail Omar Guelleh sent two [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.05.2017

U.S. Special Forces take on Al Shabaab

The Pentagon has ordered Africom’s chief, general Thomas Waldhauser, to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 26.05.2017

Zanzibar wants to become a big fish in fisheries trade

In the wake of an official visit to Djibouti between [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.05.2017

Chinese trawlers have president Guelleh’s blessings

According to our sources, American and French officials recently met [...]

Subscribers only Business 26.05.2017

Guelleh steps into naval squabble between Chinese and Afars

President Ismail Omar Guelleh summoned his farming, cattle-raising and fisheries minister Mohamed Ahmed Awaleh for talks on May 3 at [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.05.2017

Guelleh no longer trusts his prime minister

Are the days of prime minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed counted? According to our sources, president Ismail Omar Guelleh wants to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.05.2017

Djama Speed bares his teeth with interior minister

Djibouti’s health minister and son in law of president Ismail [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.05.2017

Military sweep in north

The government decided at a cabinet meeting on May 2 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.05.2017

A financial hub perhaps, but not completely transparent

According to our sources Djibouti has applied to the OECD [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.05.2017

Sovereign Global France has lost its sovereignty

As reported in Intelligence Online, a sister newsletter of the [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.05.2017

Saudi construction groups scramble for bridge-building deal

Saudi Arabian building companies are positioning themselves for a contract [...]

Subscribers only Business 12.05.2017

New energy minister Yonis Ali Guedi does a bit of spring cleaning

Heads have already begun to roll in the country’s energy institutions following the new minister of energy Yonis Ali Guedi’s [...]

Subscribers only Energy 02.05.2017

Gandouli whips up an intelligence kerfuffle in the North

Working for Djibouti’s prime minister, retired French general Claude Gandouli has been forbidden by the armed forces to travel in the north.