Liban ismail omar guelleh biography

Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, the President of Djibouti, was born on November 27, 1947, in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia to Omar Guelleh and Moumina Rirache into the Mamassans clan of the Issa.

Upon completing a traditional Islamic secondary school in 1968, he worked as a civil servant with the French colonial administration of the Republic of Djibouti, and two years later, he became a police inspector.

Guelleh was installed as president of Djibouti, a strategically located nation on the coast of East Africa, in 1999, following the political footsteps of his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, a former president who had led the country since independence 22 years earlier.

Guelleh is married to Kadra Mahamoud Haid, and they have two daughters, Haïbado Ismaïl Omar, and Fatouma-Awo Ismail Omar. However, she has a son, Naguib Abdallah Kamil, from a previous marriage.

In the 2005 election, Guelleh was the only candidate on the ballot and secured 100 percent of the vote.

In 2006, Guelleh conferred the full un