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“My heart is filled with pride as I contemplate my nation reconciled, its memory rebuilt and its history freed of its resentments.”

Source: Speech to the extraordinary congress of the Rassemblement populaire pour le progrès (RPP), Djibouti, February 1999

Context Telling his party's congress he would step down after ruling Djibouti since independence in 1977; his chief of staff Ismaïl Omar Guelleh was chosen to succeed him.

Hassan Gouled AptidonDjibouti · 1916–2006

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