The political future of Djibouti’s finance minister, Ilyas Moussa Dawaleh, will be decided on 4 March. The ambitious politician is clinging on to his post as secretary-general of Ismail Omar Guelleh’s ruling Rassemblement Populaire pour le Progrès (RPP), whose executive committee is due to be renewed at the party conference next month. Dawaleh is doing everything he can to hold on to his post, in the hope of using it