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Djibouti \u2014 Djibouti is set to hold its next presidential election, with President Ismail Omar Guelleh expected to seek re-election for a second term, a term he has held since 1999.<\/p>\n
Reports suggest that the election will feature only one candidate for president, Mohamed Farah Samatar, a former member of the ruling party and now leader of the CDU.<\/p>\n
Djibouti, home to about one million people, is strategically important because of its location near the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, where countries…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Djibouti \u2014 Djibouti is set to hold its next presidential election, with President Ismail Omar Guelleh expected to seek re-election for a second term, a term he has held since 1999. Reports suggest that the election will feature only one candidate for president, Mohamed Farah Samatar, a former member of the ruling party and now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":228096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,4701,568,3119,257,7240,6438,254],"class_list":["post-228095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-election","tag-news","tag-prepares","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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