{"id":87645,"date":"2026-04-12T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87645"},"modified":"2026-04-12T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T16:15:33","slug":"djiboutis-president-wins-unprecedented-sixth-term-with-97-8-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/12\/djiboutis-president-wins-unprecedented-sixth-term-with-97-8-of-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti&#8217;s president wins unprecedented sixth term with 97.8% of vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/3840\/cpsprodpb\/6da6\/live\/7bd834e0-3587-11f1-879d-1b2f5c3919b8.jpg\" alt=\"Ismail Omar Guelleh, dressed in white and facing the cameras, casts his vote at in Djibouti city on 10 April 2026\" width=\"537\" height=\"302\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Djibouti&#8217;s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has won an election with 97.8% of the vote, keeping him at the helm of the strategically-placed Horn of Africa nation\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cgj0wg423n6o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Djibouti&#8217;s President Ismail Omar Guelleh has won an election with 97.8% of the vote, keeping him at the helm of the strategically-placed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/President-Ismail-Omar-Guelleh.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87648,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87645\/revisions\/87648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}