{"id":176989,"date":"2024-07-21T07:18:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-to-address-nation-amid-cabinet-shake-up\/"},"modified":"2024-07-21T07:18:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T05:18:30","slug":"kenya-president-ruto-to-address-nation-amid-cabinet-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-president-ruto-to-address-nation-amid-cabinet-shake-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: President Ruto To Address Nation Amid Cabinet Shake-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Ruto has faced mounting pressure from Gen Z, who have been demanding accountability, leading him to dissolve his Cabinet on July 11, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">President William Ruto is set to address the nation from State House, Nairobi, on Friday at 4.00 pm, marking his fifth national address since a wave of anti-government protests rocked the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Speculation abounds that President Ruto will unveil his new Cabinet nominees following the dissolution of his previous Cabinet on July 11, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The move came in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407190381.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruto has faced mounting pressure from Gen Z, who have been demanding accountability, leading him to dissolve his Cabinet on July 11, 2024 President William Ruto is set to address the nation from State House, Nairobi, on Friday at 4.00 pm, marking his fifth national address since a wave of anti-government protests rocked the country. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651213:fd9a75c2feed921b2ca6a9329f5ecf56:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[7325,258,256,6467,4688,430,10970,257,2450,11238,19353,254],"class_list":["post-176989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cabinet","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nation","tag-news","tag-president","tag-ruto","tag-shakeup","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651213:fd9a75c2feed921b2ca6a9329f5ecf56:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}