{"id":15307,"date":"2026-04-10T20:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/djibouti-election-expected-to-extend-incumbents-27-years-in-presidential-office\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:40:06","slug":"djibouti-election-expected-to-extend-incumbents-27-years-in-presidential-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/djibouti-election-expected-to-extend-incumbents-27-years-in-presidential-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti election expected to extend incumbent\u2019s 27 years in presidential office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/907988b6-33ef-11f1-9ead-005056a90284\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/000-A76Z6MA.jpg\" \/><br \/>Djibouti\u2019s longstanding leader Ismael Omar Guelleh is expected to win Friday\u2019s presidential election, handing him a sixth consecutive term in a race against one weak opposition candidate. While critics dismiss the election as \u201ctoken competition\u201d, supporters say the 78-year-old incumbent has brought stability to the Horn of Africa country strategically situated between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/africa\/20260409-djibouti-election-expected-extend-incumbent-27-years-presidential-office\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djibouti\u2019s longstanding leader Ismael Omar Guelleh is expected to win Friday\u2019s presidential election, handing&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-15307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-djibouti","category-1205"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307","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=15307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}