{"id":178119,"date":"2024-08-08T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/rwanda-mbonyi-welcomed-with-pomp-in-nairobi-ahead-of-saturday-concert\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T06:02:20","slug":"rwanda-mbonyi-welcomed-with-pomp-in-nairobi-ahead-of-saturday-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/rwanda-mbonyi-welcomed-with-pomp-in-nairobi-ahead-of-saturday-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Mbonyi Welcomed With Pomp in Nairobi Ahead of Saturday Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Rwandan gospel musician Israel Mbonyicyambu, known as Israel Mbonyi, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, August 7, where he received a warm welcome ahead of his first performance in the country on Saturday, August 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with his management team and band, Mbonyi was warmly welcomed by enthusiastic fans, event organisers for his upcoming show, and journalists for a brief media session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/16975\/entertainment\/music\/israel-mbonyi-confirms-concert-in-kenya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel Mbonyi confirms concert in Kenya<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Mbonyi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408080055.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>Rwandan gospel musician Israel Mbonyicyambu, known as Israel Mbonyi, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, August 7, where he received a warm welcome ahead of his first performance in the country on Saturday, August 10. Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with his management team and band, Mbonyi was warmly welcomed by enthusiastic fans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178120,"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":[258,256,7019,14773,430,48583,259,257,39585,4702,11533,254,18532],"class_list":["post-178119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-concert","tag-kenya-news","tag-mbonyi","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-pomp","tag-rwanda","tag-saturday","tag-south-africa-today","tag-welcomed"],"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\/178119","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=178119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}