1. As Somalia goes to election, the biggest obstacle to peaceful & successful election is President Ismail Omar Guelleh and the kleptocratic feudal regime in Djibouti. Pursuing narrow personal interests, Guelleh thinks a prosperous/peaceful Somalia poses an EXISTENTIAL threat to
2. The tiny fiefdom he runs as his personal estate. In the past few months he has been collecting all undesirable characters encouraged and emboldened them to scuttle the elections. According to Guelleh, Djibouti's port is viable only if Somalia is embroiled is an endless turmoil
3. President Guelleh HYPOCRITICALLY portrays and cleverly acts as an elder Somali statesman. In reality, both COVERTLY and OVERTLY he is doing all within his powers to sabotage the elections and has defacto taken over the role TPLF hitherto used to play in destabilising Somalia.
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