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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.

Subscribers only Politics 28.04.2017

Frigid atmosphere at dinner for Paul Kagame

With health minister Djama Elmi Okieh, a k a Djama [...]

Subscribers only Politics 28.04.2017

Guelleh puts the squeeze on would-be successors

Although the scramble to succeed president Ismail Omar Guelleh has begun (ION 1447), a move to exclude Djibouti businessman Abdourahman [...]

Subscribers only Politics 07.04.2017

Al Amoudi to send a present to Afar stevedores

According to our sources, the Al Amoudi Charity Foundation is to send $3 million as a gift to 850 stevedores [...]

Subscribers only Business 07.04.2017

Francois Meynot appointed to reform Guelleh's tax system

The Indian Ocean Newsletter understands that French national Francois Meynot, who’s the lawyer for Saudi-Ethiopian mogul Mohammed Hussein al Amoudi, [...]

Subscribers only 07.04.2017

Djibauto Expert, Marill’s new venture

The managing director of Groupe Marill, Luc Marill, has inaugurated [...]

Subscribers only Business 07.04.2017

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Energy minister switched off for good

With his head on the block since the early January (ION 1442), energy minister, Yacin Houssein Bouh, was sacked by [...]

Subscribers only 03.04.2017

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Guelleh's succession : time for candidates to place bets

The race to succeed president Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has reigned supreme since 1999, has turned into a gymkhana in which each candidate is playing his career. In the secret depths of Guelleh’s end-of-reign autocracy those who would succeed him [.

Subscribers only Politics 24.03.2017

Guelleh holds fire sale for Chinese in order to pay Boreh

The Indian Ocean Newsletter understands that president Ismail Omar Guelleh recently met with China's envoy to Djibouti, Fu Huanging, to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.03.2017

Tourne carries Jabha's hopes on his shoulders

French lawyer Berenger Tourne, a partner in the firm Tourne & Bonnieu, has gone into overdrive to secure the release [...]

Subscribers only 24.03.2017

Rebellion brews amid only relative backing from Ethiopia

In early March the wives of Djibouti soldiers demonstrated against [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.03.2017

Fishermen wants the United Nations to act against Chinese

Fishermen in the Obock and Tadjourah regions are complaining over [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.03.2017

Afars against opening door to Issa refugees

The Afar inhabitants of the village of As Eyla in [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.03.2017

Marill family in moving mood

Thierry Marill set up the firm Groupement des Demenageurs de [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.03.2017

Sino-Djib Transport wants to shift into higher gear

A company that distributes Chinese transportation equipment, Sino-Djib Transport, changed [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.03.2017

Starting gun fired in battle for Guelleh’s succession

Budget minister Bodeh Ahmed Robieh (Issa/Wardig/Yesif), has been in the dog house ever since he revealed his presidential ambitions some [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.03.2017

When in Paris Guelleh cancelled program on Africa24

Even when he was in Paris for an official visit, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.03.2017

Guelleh rides to Aicha Mohamed Robleh's rescue

New twists and turns have come in the year-long saga [...]

Subscribers only Politics 10.03.2017

Jeantet law firm makes approach to Guelleh

During his official visit to Paris, Djibouti president Ismail Omar [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.03.2017

US Africa Chamber of Commerce names a rep for Somalia

Martin Mohamed, president of the US African Chamber of Commerce, [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.03.2017

Djibouti Ports Corridor Road, a new firm set up by Hadi

Aboubaker Omar Hadi, chairman of the Autorite des Ports et [...]

Subscribers only Business 10.03.2017

Ethiopian soldiers discreetly cross the border

Having to contend with the danger of destabilisation by the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité et de la Démocratie [...]

Subscribers only 03.03.2017

Will Peter Gray be disbarred over the Boreh affair?

Peter Gray, a former associate with law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, is in a tight spot. He is currently [...]

Subscribers only 24.02.2017

Government increasingly worried about armed insurgent group

Gen. Hassan Ali Kamil, an Afar who is expected to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.02.2017

Three firms pre-selected for desalination project

Following a call for tenders issued in 2014, the European [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.02.2017

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