{"id":14394,"date":"2026-03-05T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/polls-open-in-djibouti-as-veteran-ruler-guelleh-seeks-fifth-term\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:36:42","slug":"polls-open-in-djibouti-as-veteran-ruler-guelleh-seeks-fifth-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/polls-open-in-djibouti-as-veteran-ruler-guelleh-seeks-fifth-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Polls open in Djibouti as veteran ruler Guelleh seeks fifth term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/7207d2fa-9919-11eb-aebb-005056a964fe\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/EN_20210409_091251_091402_CS.jpg\" \/><br \/>Voting began Friday in Djibouti where Ismail Omar Guelleh is seeking an all but assured fifth term as president of the small but strategically located nation he has ruled for 22 years. FRANCE 24&#8217;s Bastien Renouil tells us more.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/video\/20210409-polls-open-in-djibouti-as-veteran-ruler-guelleh-seeks-fifth-term\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voting began Friday in Djibouti where Ismail Omar Guelleh is seeking an all but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1140,1205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-djibouti","category-1205"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}