Public life today
Dileita Mohamed Dileita
Dileita Mohamed Dileita (born 1959) was Prime Minister of Djibouti from 7 March 2001 to 1 April 2013, under President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh. A diplomat by training, he had been ambassador to Ethiopia and helped negotiate the 2000 agreement with a faction of the Afar rebel group FRUD. He later served as the African Union's special envoy for Libya and, according to Wikipedia, became President of the National Assembly in 2023.
Dileita Mohamed DileitaDileita Mohamed
- Lived
- 1959 to today
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 3 sources
Who is he?
Dileita Mohamed Dileita is a Djiboutian politician and diplomat. He was Prime Minister from 7 March 2001 to 1 April 2013 (World Statesmen, Djibouti). This page covers his public offices.
Diplomatic career
He was born on 12 March 1959 in Tadjoura. He studied in Cairo and Reims and at a vocational centre in Médéa, Algeria, graduating in 1981 (Wikipedia, Dileita Mohamed Dileita). He then worked in the protocol department of the presidency. In 1990 he became the second-ranking diplomat at Djibouti's embassy in France, and in 1997 ambassador to Ethiopia, where he also represented Djibouti at the Organization of African Unity (same source). Wikipedia records that he assisted the talks that ended the 1998–2000 war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
In December 1999 he was given the task of negotiating with a faction of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD), the Afar rebel group. The talks led to an agreement in February 2000 (Wikipedia). That agreement allowed the faction's leader, the former Prime Minister Ahmed Dini Ahmed, to return from exile (same source; Wikipedia, Ahmed Dini Ahmed). In mid-2000 he became ambassador to Uganda.
Prime Minister, 2001 to 2013
When Barkat Gourad Hamadou resigned for health reasons, President Guelleh appointed Dileita on 4 March 2001, and he took office on 7 March. He had not served as a minister before (Wikipedia). In July 2003 he succeeded Barkat as vice-president of the ruling People's Rally for Progress (RPP), and he led the governing coalition, the Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP), in the 2003 and 2008 parliamentary elections (same source).
He was reappointed after each of Guelleh's re-elections, in May 2005 and May 2011, and again after the 2008 election (Wikipedia). In September 2012 Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed replaced him as RPP vice-president, and Kamil succeeded him as Prime Minister in 2013 (World Statesmen).
Later roles
On 11 June 2014 the African Union Commission named him its Special Envoy for Libya, and in March 2016 he led the African Union's observer mission for the presidential election in the Republic of the Congo (Wikipedia). Wikipedia records that he was elected President of the National Assembly of Djibouti on 5 March 2023.
Offices held
- Ambassador to Ethiopia, from 1997; ambassador to Uganda, from 2000
- Prime Minister of Djibouti, 7 March 2001 to 1 April 2013. See Presidents and Prime Ministers of Djibouti.
- African Union Special Envoy for Libya, from 2014
- President of the National Assembly of Djibouti, from March 2023 (Wikipedia)
Sources
- World Statesmen, Djibouti · worldstatesmen.org
- Wikipedia, Dileita Mohamed Dileita · en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, Ahmed Dini Ahmed · en.wikipedia.org
Dileita Mohamed DileitaDileita Mohamed
- Lived
- 1959 to today
- Known as one of
- Public life today
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 3 sources
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