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Addis Ababa \u2014 Djibouti has wrapped up a vibrant and closely watched presidential campaign, as tens of thousands of supporters flooded Hassan Gouled Stadium for the final rally ahead of voting day.<\/p>\n

The Red Sea nation now stands on the brink of a pivotal election, with citizens set to head to the polls tomorrow after weeks of intense political mobilization across the country.<\/p>\n

As Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reporting from the ground, the stadium was awash with party colors, flags, and banners, as a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Addis Ababa \u2014 Djibouti has wrapped up a vibrant and closely watched presidential campaign, as tens of thousands of supporters flooded Hassan Gouled Stadium for the final rally ahead of voting day. The Red Sea nation now stands on the brink of a pivotal election, with citizens set to head to the polls tomorrow after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229933,"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":[258,256,9240,4302,4701,568,7933,30756,6958,10970,257,6438,8976,254,7907],"class_list":["post-229932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ballot","tag-campaign","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-ends","tag-highstakes","tag-massive","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-rally","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turns"],"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\/229932","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=229932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}