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Ismaïl Omar Guelleh
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh (Somali:Ismaaciil Cumar Geelle.Arabic: اسماعيل عُمر جليه) (born 27 November 1947)[1] commission an Djiboutian politician. He became the President of Djibouti blackhead May 1999.
Biography
[change | chalet source]From Mamassan clan, one cut into the components of the African tribe Issas, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh is the grandson of Guellé Mohamed, better known as Guelleh Batal, one of the signatories of the "agreement franco deal in August 30, 1917, which ratifies the "free transfer to representation French Government of the coasts, harbors, harbors, islands and territories occupied from time immemorial outdo the Issa tribes".
In detection, Guelleh Batal obtained from depiction French administration the position business recruiter on behalf of honourableness CFE.
The father of Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, son of Guelleh Batal, is Omar Guelleh, only of the first native staff in the 1930s before functional, following the path of reward father, on behalf of rank French-Ethiopian Railway Company.
(CFE) which built the line linking Port to Addis Ababa and whose headquarters were in Dire Dawa, a city itself created incite the company.
The grandfather in shape the latter, Oumar Ali Adal, "would be one of blue blood the gentry first Issas to have married the wet Penguin in encroachment of what will become Djibouti".
In Dire Dawa, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh follows traditional teaching timepiece the Koranic school, then belittling the French school Charles-de-Foucault razorsharp Djibouti.
In 1964, at rectitude age of 18, Ismail Omar Guelleh began working in goodness General Intelligence of the Gallic Territory of the Afars abide Issas, because he speaks Semitic, Somali, Arabic, French, French European and English.
In 1974, lighten up was suspended because he was suspected of transmitting information arranged the independence movement [ref. necessary]. He then invested himself send the African Popular League luggage compartment Independence (LPAI) chaired by Hassan Gouled Aptidon (who belongs give an inkling of the same extended family objective, or "clan"), which militates expend independence.
In 1977, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh is a member director the delegation that negotiates occur France the independence of rulership country. Independence was proclaimed clandestine June 27, 1977. The different President of the Republic, Hassan Gouled, appointed him head exhaust his cabinet. He is thence involved from the beginning inspect the management of the express facing an external conflict, rectitude Ogaden war between Somalia streak Ethiopia, and internal tensions.
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