00:00Ballot papers and boxes were dispatched across Djibouti on Thursday, on the eve of the country's presidential election.
00:08Incumbent Ismail Omar Ghele is expected to win the vote, facing one low-profile opponent whose party has no seats
00:18in Parliament.
00:2078-year-old Ghele has ruled the country with an iron fist since taking office in 1999.
00:27He's cast himself as a guarantor of stability in the tiny Horn of Africa nation.
00:35He's also turned the strategically located country into an international military hub, home to America's only military base in Africa.
00:45France, Japan and Italy also have troops stationed in the country.
00:50But rights groups say Ghele has repressed dissenting voices and press freedom.
00:57Critics have called Friday's vote a masquerade with a foregone conclusion.
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