Djibouti incumbent president Guelleh wins -provisional results

Ismail Omar Guelleh arrives for a Reuters interview at his home in Ethiopia"s capital Addis Ababa, January 30, 2016.

Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fourth five-year term as Djibouti's president in an election on Friday, securing 87 percent of the votes cast, provisional results announced by Interior Minister Hassan Omar on Saturday showed.

Guelleh, who ran on the UMP party ticket, also won the last election in 2011 with almost 80 percent of the vote. In power since 1999, he has overseen Djibouti's economic rise as it seeks to position itself as an international port.