Campaigning starts for Djibouti presidential poll

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

DJIBOUTI — Campaigning started Friday for Djibouti’s April 8 poll, with outgoing president Ismael Omar Guelleh holding the first campaign rally in this tiny but strategically located Horn of Africa country.

 

Guelleh, who has been in power since 1999, was cheered by his supporters when he arrived in Balbala, a poor district of the capital, for his meeting, an AFP correspondent said.

 

 

Campaign rallys in Djibouti for the ruling party (AFP).

The head of the electoral commission Assoweh Idris Assoweh said the campaign had “got off to an auspicious start.”

 

Guelleh will face only one rival in the poll, independent candidate Mohamed Warsama Ragueh, the former head of the Constitutional Council.

 

Djibouti is strategically situated on one of the world’s busiest shipping routes where the Red Sea joins the Gulf of Aden. It hosts the only US military base in Africa and the largest overseas French army base. Since last year it has also been home to a Japanese base.

 

Guelleh is the nephew and former senior aide to Hassan Gouled Aptidon, who was in power from 1977 to 1999. In April 2010 parliament voted a constitutional reform to allow Guelleh to run for a third six-year term.

 

Djibouti’s opposition parties — the Union for Democratic Change (UAD) and the Union of Democratic Movements (UMD) — plan to boycott the poll as they have failed to field a consensus candidate and because they accuse the electoral commission of favouring the ruling party.

 

There was no sign Friday of the political meeting that the opposition parties had wanted to hold to coincide with the start of the electoral campaign.

 

The government warned them Thursday not to try to hold such a rally on the grounds that only candidates or parties fielding an approved candidate are allowed to hold meetings during the campaign.

 

Source: Agence France-Presse

[Saalax]

Interesting. I hope peaceful elections for Djibouti.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Ismacil cumar geele inshallah will win he is good for the country

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Ololaha Doorashada Madaxtinimada Djibouti Oo Bilaamay iyo Madaxweyne Geele Oo Shalay la Hadlay Dadweynaha Reer Belbela

 

Djibouti (SDWO 27/03/2011) - Ololaha Doorashada Madaxtinimda ayaa maanta si rasmiya uga bilaamay Wadanka Jabuuti ,iyada oo ay madaxda Xisbiyada ee ku loolamaya Doorashada Madaxweyninimada ee 8 Bisha soo socota dalkaasi ka dhici doonta ay

taageerayaashooda kala hadlayaan meelo loogu talo.

 

 

 

Madaxweynaha hada talada haya ee Ismaaciil Cumar geele iyo Madaxda kale ee Xisbigiisa ayaa Maanta Kumanaan taageerayaal ah kula hadlay Xaafada Belbela oo ka mid Xaafadaha Caasimada Jabuuti ee jabuuti.

 

 

 

Madaxweyne Ismaaciil Cumar Geele waxa uu ka codsaday dadweynihii uu halkaasi kula hadlay inay u Codeeyaan Xisbigiisa marka la gaadho Doorashada si uu Hogaanka dalka u sii hayo,isaga oo sidoo kale dadka wadankaasi ee jooga wadamada jaarka ka dalbaday inay 8 Bisha soo socota ka hor isu diyaariyaan inay ka qayb qaataan doorashada,soona doontaa kaadhka lagu codaynayo.

 

 

 

Ismaaciil Cumar Geele waxa uu intaasi ku daray in loo baahanyahay in dadka reer jabuuti ka fikiraan Aayahooda iyo horumarka wadankooda, isla markaana ay doortaan cidii looga bartay inay kor u qaado bulshada Wadanka Noloshooda oo ah isaga,waxaanu xusay in Muddadii uu madaxweynaha ahaa wax badan dalka ka qabtay oo uu horumar gaadhsiiyey, hadana uu doonayo in uu halkaasi ka sii wado dedaalkiisa hadii mar kale ay dadku u codeeyaan oo uu ku guulaysto Doorashada.

 

 

 

Mr Geele oo Xafladan uu maanta kula hadlayey Taageerayaashii ay ka soo qayb galeen qaar ka mid ah Fanaaniinta Reer Jabuuti iyo kumanaan qof oo Xisbigiisa taageeraa, waxa uu gabagabadii ka ku dhawaaqay in dadka reer jabuuti uu uga fadhiyo wixii uga bartay si u sii wado wixii ay uga barteen.

 

 

 

waxaanu yidhi “8 Bisha soo socota waxaan idiinka doonayaa wixii aan idiinka bartay si aan u sii wado wixii aad iiga barateen,waxaanan doonayaa inaad codkiina i siisaan si aan dhamaanteen u guulaysano

 

SDWO News Desk – Djibouti

[Xaaji Xunjuf]