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Spotlight DJIBOUTI Issue dated 06/12/2008

Battle for succession ahead of time

The rich Djibouti businessman Abdurahman Mahamoud Boreh, who had made a very substantial contribution to President Ismaël Omar Guelleh's election campaign in 1999, is now at daggers drawn with the presidential couple. He had been replaced at the head of [...] (719 words)

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Bolloré wants to bypass DP World

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The war of nerves has begun

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Net tightening around the Boreh family

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French double mission to Somaliland

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Guelleh turns on the charm to Sarkozy

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