{"id":177546,"date":"2024-07-30T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-submits-raila-odingas-nomination-for-auc-chairmanship\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T05:41:00","slug":"kenya-submits-raila-odingas-nomination-for-auc-chairmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-submits-raila-odingas-nomination-for-auc-chairmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Submits Raila Odinga&#8217;s Nomination for AUC Chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya has submitted its nomination of Raila Odinga to contest for the African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship in elections slated for February 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The Ministry of Foreign Affiars presented Kenya&#8217;s candidature in Addis Abba on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Foreign Affiars Principal Secretary Korir Sing&#8217;Oei presented the nomination to the continet&#8217;s Eastern Region Dean Dharmraj Busgeeth, Ambassador of Mauritius, accompanied by Odinga&#8217;s strategists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Kenya settled on the former Prime Minister as its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407300027.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>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya has submitted its nomination of Raila Odinga to contest for the African Union Commission (AUC) chairmanship in elections slated for February 2025. The Ministry of Foreign Affiars presented Kenya&#8217;s candidature in Addis Abba on Monday. Foreign Affiars Principal Secretary Korir Sing&#8217;Oei presented the nomination to the continet&#8217;s Eastern Region Dean Dharmraj Busgeeth, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5444,14301,4688,430,257,9072,11992,10917,254,9695],"class_list":["post-177546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auc","tag-chairmanship","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nomination","tag-odingas","tag-raila","tag-south-africa-today","tag-submits"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177546","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=177546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}