To ensure the smooth running of Djibouti's port, a major pillar of the small state's economy and on which its elite thrives, President Ismail Omar Guelleh (IOG) needed just the right person for the role: someone from his Somali/Issa/Mamassan clan with no political ambitions, whom he could trust, and with a strong enough grip to steer the 24 companies and subsidiaries held under Djibouti's flagship Great Horn Investment Holding (GHIH). Sixty-five-year-old Aboubaker Omar Hadi (AOH), who sports a thin