Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh is critically ill

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Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh reports suggesting was critically ill after being hospitalized on Saturday.

Social media reports had claimed the Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh is critically ill was flown to Paris due to a critical illness, with internet outages in Djibouti allegedly aimed at preventing the spread of news about his condition.




Dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh, who has led Djibouti since 1999, was notably absent from the General Debate of the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, which many other African leaders attended.

Ismail Omar Guelleh, is well-known to Djiboutians. He has, after all, been in power since May 1999, the year he succeeded his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, for whom he was in charge of national security and intelligence gathering, also according to sources Somali spy agency NISA senior commander told Somali Times Ismail Omar Guelleh and his wife Kadra Mahamoud Haid both former worker of France’s intelligence agency DGSI.




Ismail Omar Guelleh’s 40-year reign by literally re-electing himself for a fifth consecutive term. In this event, it cannot be reasonably referred to as an ‘election.

Ismail Omar Guelleh had no opponent other than his wife Kadra Mahamoud Haid and two sons in-law from the Ivory Coast and Senegal.




Djiboutian citizens, except the privileged few who are close to the regime – Guelleh’s name is dictatorship and lost opportunities. Under his regime, human rights and civil liberties are routinely violated with wife and two sons in-law from Ivory Coast and Senegal.

Djibouti is in general believed to be host to a several kinds of human rights abuses, including: poor prison conditions; denial of fair public trial; interference with privacy rights restrictions on freedoms of the press, assembly and association; lack of protection for refugees; and corruption.