{"id":229753,"date":"2026-04-07T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djiboutis-guelleh-intensifies-campaign-push-as-presidential-vote-nears\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:19:55","slug":"djiboutis-guelleh-intensifies-campaign-push-as-presidential-vote-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djiboutis-guelleh-intensifies-campaign-push-as-presidential-vote-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti&#8217;s Guelleh Intensifies Campaign Push As Presidential Vote Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Djibouti is entering the final stretch of its presidential race, with incumbent President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh ramping up campaign efforts just days before voters head to the polls on April 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Guelleh, who has led the Red Sea nation since 1999, is seeking a sixth term in office, facing Mohamed Farah Samatar of the Unified Democratic Center, the sole opposition candidate in the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The campaign reached a high point on April 6, when tens of thousands of supporters gathered in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604070209.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Addis Ababa \u2014 Djibouti is entering the final stretch of its presidential race, with incumbent President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh ramping up campaign efforts just days before voters head to the polls on April 10. Guelleh, who has led the Red Sea nation since 1999, is seeking a sixth term in office, facing Mohamed Farah Samatar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229754,"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":[258,256,4302,568,7235,19633,8013,6145,257,6438,6354,254,8588],"class_list":["post-229753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaign","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-guelleh","tag-intensifies","tag-nears","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote"],"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\/229753","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=229753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}