{"id":178957,"date":"2024-08-21T20:37:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-president-ruto-to-launch-railas-candidacy-for-auc-top-post-next-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T20:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T18:37:53","slug":"africa-president-ruto-to-launch-railas-candidacy-for-auc-top-post-next-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-president-ruto-to-launch-railas-candidacy-for-auc-top-post-next-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: President Ruto to Launch Raila&#8217;s Candidacy for AUC Top Post Next Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 21<\/em> <em>&#8212; President William Ruto is set to formally launch the candidacy of Azimio leader Raila Odinga for the African Union Commission (AUC) Chairman post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">This announcement was made by Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, who emphasized the significance of this move on both national and continental levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Mudavadi highlighted that President Ruto will spearhead a campaign to secure the influential position for Odinga, citing the former Prime Minister&#8217;s extensive experience&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408210397.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, Kenya, Aug 21 &#8212; President William Ruto is set to formally launch the candidacy of Azimio leader Raila Odinga for the African Union Commission (AUC) Chairman post. This announcement was made by Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, who emphasized the significance of this move on both national and continental levels. Mudavadi highlighted that President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178958,"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":[258,256,5444,9129,430,5741,257,9145,2450,13335,11238,254,7319,7871],"class_list":["post-178957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-auc","tag-candidacy","tag-kenya-news","tag-launch","tag-news","tag-post","tag-president","tag-railas","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-tuesday"],"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\/178957","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=178957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}