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Djibouti

IOG plays cat and mouse with the USN

The government is struggling to honour the commitments it gave under the reconciliation agreement it signed with the Union pour [...]

Subscribers only 02.02.2015

Parliamentary cooperation with Paris is rather hazy

The chief of staff of the Speaker of the Djibouti [...]

Subscribers only Politics 30.01.2015

Ministers fear agreement with opposition

Some around President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) and in government are dragging their feet over implementation of the reconciliation agreement [...]

Subscribers only 22.01.2015

Chinese companies dominate the ports

The Djibouti government is banking on China to turn its country into a maritime hub for the whole region.

Subscribers only Business 16.01.2015

The prosecutor Djama applies pressure on DAF

While the negotiations between the government and the opposition are [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.01.2015

Opposition and government go into the heart of the matter

Following the signature on 30 December of a reconciliation agreement [...]

Subscribers only Politics 16.01.2015

The lawyer Aref Mohamed Aref’s commercial activity

Aref Mohamed Aref, the lawyer to President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.01.2015

Two Dubai businessmen in real estate

Two businessmen from Dubai, Riyad Mohsen Al Horaibi and his [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.01.2015

Prime Value Catalyst takes over Total

Following the legal liquidation of two subsidiaries of Total on [...]

Subscribers only Business 16.01.2015

Splits within the USN

The reconciliation agreement signed with the government on 30 December is not to the liking of all the USN factions.

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2015

Train project goes off the rails

The construction of a railway from Addis Ababa to the Djibouti port Doraleh has had its first setbacks.

Subscribers only Business 02.01.2015

UMP-USN deal three months in the making

The two intermediaries to inking the reconciliation agreement on 30 [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2015

Ali Abdi Farah noted by his absence at Somalia talks

The secretary for external relations of the presidential party Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès and close to the presidential couple, Ali Abdi Farah, got himself noticed by refusing to greet the Somaliland delegation which was in Djibouti on 20 and

Subscribers only Politics 02.01.2015

A Sudanese freight company arrives in Djibouti

The Sudanese freight and logistics company Millak Agencies Co, headquartered [...]

Subscribers only Business 02.01.2015

President IOG resumes dialogue with USN

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) is blowing hot and cold with the opposition. So much so that some members of [...]

Subscribers only 29.12.2014

The road of discord

The Ethiopian ambassador to Djibouti, Souleiman Dedefo, is highly preoccupied by the accumulated delay in building the Tadjoura-Balho (via Dorra) [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.12.2014

IOG, political mediator in Somaliland

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) should meet Faysal Ali Warabe this week, the Somaliland opponent resident in Finland but currently staying in Djibouti.

Subscribers only Politics 12.12.2014

The RPP pretenders’ ball

Since Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (IOG) let slip that he may [...]

Subscribers only Politics 12.12.2014

Joseph Karangwa, the new IMF representative

The Rwandan Joseph Karangwa is about to take up his functions as representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in [...]

Subscribers only 12.12.2014

ARD successfully cloned

The creation of an ARD B, which the government immediately legalised, illustrates manoeuvres to divide the opposition.