{"id":187963,"date":"2025-01-05T13:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T11:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-presidents-museveni-ruto-commit-to-preserving-luo-heritage\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T11:27:44","slug":"uganda-presidents-museveni-ruto-commit-to-preserving-luo-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-presidents-museveni-ruto-commit-to-preserving-luo-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: Presidents Museveni, Ruto Commit to Preserving Luo Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Speaking at the festival, the two leaders highlighted the importance of preserving cultural heritage and fostering unity in the region.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">President Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto joined former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga today at the Piny Luo Festival in Siaya County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The event celebrates the rich traditions and heritage of the Luo community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Speaking at the festival, the two leaders highlighted the importance of preserving cultural heritage and fostering unity in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501030028.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>Speaking at the festival, the two leaders highlighted the importance of preserving cultural heritage and fostering unity in the region. President Museveni and his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto joined former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga today at the Piny Luo Festival in Siaya County. The event celebrates the rich traditions and heritage of the Luo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":187964,"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":[258,256,7682,12102,430,20610,7776,257,10896,7527,11238,254,4707],"class_list":["post-187963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commit","tag-heritage","tag-kenya-news","tag-luo","tag-museveni","tag-news","tag-preserving","tag-presidents","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda"],"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\/187963","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=187963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}