{"id":118108,"date":"2021-04-10T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T06:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118108"},"modified":"2021-04-10T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T06:51:13","slug":"djibouti-president-secures-5th-term-with-98-of-votes-provisional-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118108","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti president secures 5th term with 98% of votes &#8211; provisional results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Djibouti-president-secures-5th-term-with-98-of-votes-Provisional-results-1228714?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/336\/33642776.295.jpg\" alt=\"President Omar Guelleh has been in power for 22 years\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>President Omar Guelleh has been in power for 22 years<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DJIBOUTI, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh is coasting to a landslide in presidential elections held on Friday, April 9.<br><br>According to provisional results showed that the incumbent President won more than 98% of the vote.<br><br>He was largely expected to win given that his main opponent was a largely unknown businessman, Zakaria Ismail Farah.<br><br>President Guelleh after casting his ballot told the press that he was upbeat of victory.<br><br>The 73-year-old will secure a fifth term in office to add to his already 22 years in power.<br><br>This time around it is most likely his last chance to be head of state before becoming ineligible &#8212; as per an age limit based on a 2010 constitutional reform.<br><br>As the main opposition parties boycotted the vote, political analysts widely expected a landslide win for the incumbent.<br><br>Under Guelleh, the country has exploited its geographical advantage of the strategically located nation, investing heavily in ports and logistics infrastructure.<br><br>In 2018, seeking to become a trade and logistics hub, the country launched &#8212; via Chinese financing, the first phase of what will be Africa&#8217;s biggest free-trade zone. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<em>s<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Omar Guelleh has been in power for 22 years DJIBOUTI, April 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh is coasting to a landslide in presidential elections held on Friday, April 9. According to provisional results showed that the incumbent President won more than 98% of the vote. He was largely expected to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}