{{Voters in Djibouti are casting ballots in the nation’s parliamentary elections.}}<\/p>\n
Friday’s vote is notable because opposition political parties can win seats for the first time.<\/p>\n
Djibouti \u2014 a nation of less than 1 million people \u2014 hosts the only permanent U.S. military base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier. <\/p>\n
The base hosts conventional forces but also special forces and aerial drones believed to be flown over Yemen and Somalia.<\/p>\n
President Ismail Omar Guelleh won a third term in 2011 in a vote colored by an opposition boycott and a clampdown on dissent. <\/p>\n
Guelleh’s critics lament changes he made to the constitution in 2010 that scrubbed a two-term limit from the nation’s bylaws.<\/p>\n
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