Foreign leaders have arrived in Djibouti, for President Ismail Omar Guelleh’s inauguration ceremony. Somaliland president Muse Bihii, Kenya president Uhuru Kenyatta, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Roble are among dignitaries who are already in Djibouti.
During the event president Muse Bihii and Uhuru Kenyatta were pictured chatting up on the sidelines of the inauguration.
Djibouti’s government on April 10 announced that longtime President Ismail Omar Guelleh yet again won the election with a landslide, earning him a fifth term, citing provisional results.
His election makes him one of the longest serving Heads of State in Africa. Omar was first elected to office in 1999 following the retirement of his predecessor Hassan Gouled Aptidon. Aptidon, is his uncle, and had served the country since it got its independence from France in 1977.
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