Resolution on the Situation in Djibouti
In Djibouti, a country under dictatorship since its Independence of 1977, the situation keeps worsening. Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, in power since 1999, tampered with the Constitution on October 26th, 2025, and removed the age limit set at 75 years for presidential candidates in order to grant himself a sixth and illegitimate presidential term. Through this move, he also paved the way for a lifetime of power.
The decision by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Committee on November 4th, 2020, in favour of the MRD, IS Member Party which was arbitrarily banned in 2008, still remains unimplemented. The Block for National Salvation (BNS), an Opposition coalition made up of the MRD and two other Parties, cannot hold any public meeting, any demonstration or march. Human Rights violations are constant. Regarding the Djiboutian economy, it remains in the hands of the President’s Family and his Entourage, which generates heavy inequalities, massive unemployment and wide-spread poverty.
IS strongly condemns this unacceptable situation and calls for :
- The return to the pre-October 26th Constitutional order ;
- The implementation of the decision rendered by the UN Human Rights Committee on November 4th, 2020, in favour of the MRD ;
- The establishment of the Joint Independent National Electoral Commission set up by the Framework-Agreement signed between the regime and the Opposition on December 30th, 2014, to ensure that the 2026 presidential election is at last transparent, free and fair.
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