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President Uhuru Kenyatta was among the few Heads of State who attended the Djibouti President s inauguration on Saturday, May 15. [Courtesy]
President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday morning, May 15, arrived in Djibouti to attend the inauguration of the country’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh.
Ismail Omar, 73, won a fifth term in office in April 2021. The presidential election was boycotted by all opposition candidates, except for one, over claims of electoral malpractice.
Omar’s administration has, however, insisted that the polls were fair.
Omar got 97 per cent of the 177,391 votes cast. The country has a population of 990,000 people, with 215,000 being registered voters.
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Ab Hassan Ali, on top of the lighthouse on the deserted headland, crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and headed to war-torn Yemen. Then, behind him, went to Ethiopia, which was suffering from the war. Then, on his right, in troubled Somalia. Finally, on the left of Eritrea, the dictatorship participated in the Tigri conflict in neighboring countries.
“This is a peaceful trading point,” said the witty man in charge of this work. Djibouti used to be a French colony. Only 1 million people lived in the past. This is a rare point of stability on the way to the Suez Canal (the hub of global trade) at a very strategic location (the southern end of the Red Sea).