{"id":10575,"date":"2026-04-11T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/11\/djibouti-ismail-omar-guelleh-sixth-term-election-97-percent-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:15:19","slug":"djibouti-ismail-omar-guelleh-sixth-term-election-97-percent-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/11\/djibouti-ismail-omar-guelleh-sixth-term-election-97-percent-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti&#8217;s Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh Wins Sixth Term with 97.8% of the Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official results from Djibouti&#8217;s presidential election show that Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh has secured approximately 97.8% of the votes, winning a sixth consecutive term in power. The results, published by Djibouti&#8217;s state news agency, confirm his decisive victory in Friday&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p>Guelleh&#8217;s sole opponent, Mohamed Farah, received around 2.19% of the vote. Reports indicate that nearly 256,000 people registered to participate in the election, with voter turnout estimated at about 80%.<\/p>\n<p>Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh has led the East African Horn nation since 1999. Following the announcement of preliminary results, he wrote on his X social media account, &#8220;Re-elected once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the overwhelming victory, some human rights groups in recent years have accused Djibouti&#8217;s government of restricting freedom of expression and political activities. Government officials deny these allegations, emphasizing that the electoral processes are conducted according to the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djibouti&#8217;s President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh wins a sixth term with 97.8% of votes amid accusations of restricted political freedoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}