Djibouti dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh and his partner in crime Kadra Mahamoud Haid/Credit Photo Facebook
Ismail Omar Guelleh, nicknamed Calooleey, 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.
This is not the case. A report by the International Federation of Human Rights captured this reality perfectly, ”Djibouti is a rich country but the Djiboutians are poor.”
Djibouti dictator and chief predator, Ismail Omar Guelleh, has become one of the richest presidents in all of Africa. Guelleh, our homegrown kleptocrat, decided to monopolize state resources and the economy for himself, while condemning most Djiboutians to a life of extreme poverty and hopelessness.
Djibouti is less than a country than a commercial state-city controlled by, Ismail Omar Guelleh, wife Kadra Mahamoud Haid and two sons in-law from Ivory Coast and Senegal.
The situation in Djibouti is an emergency. Words must be turned to action.
Djibouti, a former French colony, has only had two presidents since its independence in 1977 from France. In fact, Ismail Omar Guelleh, nicknamed Calooleey, a former intelligence officer, was a handpicked successor of his uncle, Hassan Guleid Aptidon, the first president of Djibouti.
Somalia president Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, under the control of dictator Ismail Omar Guelleh interfering Somalia domestic political affairs.
The role he had in building the government of Somalia in the past 22 years. 4.5 system that is based on the government of Somalia was implemented by Ismail Omar Guelleh.
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.