{"id":42614,"date":"2026-04-09T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/04\/09\/djibouti-election-expected-to-extend-incumbents-27-years-in-presidential-office\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:03:09","slug":"djibouti-election-expected-to-extend-incumbents-27-years-in-presidential-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2026\/04\/09\/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":"<div>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.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-42614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}