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Ismail Omar Guelleh
The Djiboutian crises Lord finally caught in his creating wars in the Horn of Africa for personal gain. The Djiboutian strongman, Ismail Omar Guelleh has been living off the misery of the countries of in the Horn of Africa.
Inheriting the throne from his uncle, Hassan Glued Abtidoon, Mr Guelleh walked into the office in 1999 and is currently on the 8th place of the list of Africa’s longest serving dictators, a position he shares with the 81 years old Algerian Abdelaziz Bouteflika. At 71 years old, Mr Guelleh is much younger than some of the 7 despots on the list above him and he can easily be among the top longest serving dictators in the continent if he lives long enough as his contesters. He has until his death to go to beat a few of his contenders on the list.
Mr Guelleh has been the main obstacle to the peace and prosperity in the countries on region, Eritrea, Somaliland and Somalia. In his desperate attempt to control the Bab-el-Mandab strait, he invaded Eritrea. He has been colluding with warlords and spoilers of peace from Somalia and pitting them against each other and against Somaliland.
He had tried to weaken Somaliland economically and politically. While he succeeded to project an “Oday Somali” image of himself, a Somali statesman who mediates Somalia's peace process, he has in reality since the Arta Conference been dividing the Somali people to benefit from their division and suffering and in that process scooped billions of dollars from the West in his fight against an enemy he has created himself .
The Djiboutian crises Lord finally caught in his creating wars in the Horn of Africa for personal gain. The Djiboutian strongman, Ismail Omar Guelleh has been living off the misery of the countries of in the Horn of Africa.
Inheriting the throne from his uncle, Hassan Glued Abtidoon, Mr Guelleh walked into the office in 1999 and is currently on the 8th place of the list of Africa’s longest serving dictators, a position he shares with the 81 years old Algerian Abdelaziz Bouteflika. At 71 years old, Mr Guelleh is much younger than some of the 7 despots on the list above him and he can easily be among the top longest serving dictators in the continent if he lives long enough as his contesters. He has until his death to go to beat a few of his contenders on the list.
Mr Guelleh has been the main obstacle to the peace and prosperity in the countries on region, Eritrea, Somaliland and Somalia. In his desperate attempt to control the Bab-el-Mandab strait, he invaded Eritrea. He has been colluding with warlords and spoilers of peace from Somalia and pitting them against each other and against Somaliland.
He had tried to weaken Somaliland economically and politically. While he succeeded to project an “Oday Somali” image of himself, a Somali statesman who mediates Somalia's peace process, he has in reality since the Arta Conference been dividing the Somali people to benefit from their division and suffering and in that process scooped billions of dollars from the West in his fight against an enemy he has created himself .
