{"id":163119,"date":"2026-04-11T08:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163119\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:46:08","slug":"djibouti-president-ismail-omar-guelleh-is-reelected-for-a-sixth-term-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/163119\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh is reelected for a sixth term | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 Djibouti <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/djibouti-election-guelleh-6ac59342e219e558a06b75037602c1ab\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh<\/a> was reelected for a sixth term after official results showed him winning 97.81% of the vote in Friday&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Guelleh, 78, has ruled the small Horn of Africa nation of about 1 million for more than two decades. Last year, the country\u2019s lawmakers scrapped presidential age limits.<\/p>\n<p>Election officials said the vote was peaceful. At the presidential palace, supporters on Saturday celebrated and offered congratulations.<\/p>\n<p>Guelleh faced a single challenger, Mohamed Farah Samatar, a former ruling party member, in a race analysts say offered little genuine competition. Opposition groups frequently boycott elections, citing restrictions on political freedoms.<\/p>\n<p>Guelleh succeeded his uncle, former President Hassan Gouled Aptidon, in 1999, extending a family-led system that has shaped the country\u2019s politics for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Djibouti hosts multiple foreign military bases, including those of the U.S., China, France and Japan, underscoring its strategic importance along a key global shipping route linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Revenues from these arrangements, along with port services for neighboring Ethiopia, underpin the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 Djibouti President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh was reelected for a sixth term after official results&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,73692,902,38,50,301],"class_list":["post-163119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-djibouti-election-guelleh","tag-elections","tag-general-news","tag-politics","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}