Veteran ruler Guelleh confident of victory as Djibouti votes
By Marion DOUET
7 HOURS AGO
President Ismail Omar Guelleh cast his ballot in the Ras-Dika district in the capital Djibouti. By TONY KARUMBA (AFP)
Djibouti s veteran ruler Ismail Omar Guelleh said Friday he was very confident of securing a fifth term as president as voters went to the polls in the tiny but strategically important African nation.
Some 215,000 citizens are registered to vote in the ballot pitting Guelleh, 73, against a little-known businessman widely seen as posing scant threat to the strongman, in power since 1999.
Polling stations opened at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) across the arid Horn of Africa nation, which overlooks one of the world s busiest trade routes at the crossroads between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Polls open in Djibouti as veteran ruler Guelleh seeks fifth term
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Djibouti to vote as veteran ruler Guelleh seeks fifth term
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