{"id":230327,"date":"2026-04-14T02:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-african-union-chief-congratulates-djiboutis-guelleh-on-re-election\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T02:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:41:19","slug":"djibouti-african-union-chief-congratulates-djiboutis-guelleh-on-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-african-union-chief-congratulates-djiboutis-guelleh-on-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti: African Union Chief Congratulates Djibouti&#8217;s Guelleh On Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, chairperson of the African Union Commission, on Sunday congratulated Ismail Omar Guelleh following his re-election as president of Djibouti, praising what he described as a peaceful electoral process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">In an official statement, Youssouf welcomed the results announced by Djibouti&#8217;s electoral authorities, confirming Guelleh&#8217;s victory, and extended congratulations to the Djiboutian people for their participation in the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He emphasized the importance of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130783.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 Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, chairperson of the African Union Commission, on Sunday congratulated Ismail Omar Guelleh following his re-election as president of Djibouti, praising what he described as a peaceful electoral process. In an official statement, Youssouf welcomed the results announced by Djibouti&#8217;s electoral authorities, confirming Guelleh&#8217;s victory, and extended congratulations to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230328,"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":[258,256,4380,6510,6439,4701,568,7235,19633,257,13072,254,6156],"class_list":["post-230327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-chief","tag-congratulates","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-guelleh","tag-news","tag-reelection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"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\/230327","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=230327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}