Dileita Mohamed Dileita (, ; born 12 March 1959) is a Djiboutian politician who was the prime minister of Djibouti from 7 March 2001 to 1 April 2013. He was vice-president of the People's Rally for Progress (RPP), the governing political party, until 2012. He also served as president of the Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP), the governing coalition. He was elected President of the National Assembly on 5 March 2023.
Early years
Dileita was born in 1959 in the coastal eastern city of Tadjoura, Djibouti, to an Afar family. He studied in Cairo After long-time prime minister Barkat Gourad Hamadou resigned for health reasons in February 2001, President Ismail Omar Guelleh appointed Dileita as prime minister on March 4, 2001, and he took office on March 7. Dileita led the ruling coalition, the Union for the Presidential Majority (UMP), in the January 2003 parliamentary election, standing as the first candidate on the coalition's list for the District of Djibouti.
On May 21, 2005, Dileita was reappointed as prime minister after Guelleh's re-election in the April 2005 presidential election; a new government under Dileita was named on May 22.
As of 2008, Dileita was the president of the UMP coalition, and he headed the UMP list for the District of Djibouti in the February 2008 parliamentary election. and named a new government under Dileita on March 27.
After Guelleh won a third term in the April 2011 presidential election, he reappointed Dileita as prime minister on 11 May 2011. Guelleh retained Dileita in his post even though various other long-serving ministers were dropped from the new government that was announced on 12 May. He was replaced as RPP Vice-president by Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed in September 2012, as part of an extensive shake-up of the RPP leadership.
On 31 March 2013, Dileita was succeeded by Kamil as prime minister.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union, announced on 11 June 2014 that Dileita was appointed as the African Union's Special Envoy for Libya. He was head of the African Union observer mission for the March 2016 Congolese presidential election.
See also
- People's Rally for Progress