Ismail Guelleh wins fourth term as Djibouti president

Ismail Omar Guelleh has won a fourth five-year term as president of Djibouti, a strategically important country in the Horn of Africa.

Guelleh, who ran on the UMP party ticket, secured 87 percent of the votes cast in Friday's elections, according to provisional results announced by the country's interior minister.

Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow reports from Djibouti City.