{"id":188662,"date":"2025-01-15T03:54:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-kenyas-raila-odinga-seeks-zimbabwes-support-for-top-au-post\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T03:54:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T01:54:49","slug":"africa-kenyas-raila-odinga-seeks-zimbabwes-support-for-top-au-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-kenyas-raila-odinga-seeks-zimbabwes-support-for-top-au-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Kenya&#8217;s Raila Odinga Seeks Zimbabwe&#8217;s Support for Top AU Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">President Mnangagwa today (Monday) received Kenyan opposition leader Mr Raila Odinga who is in Zimbabwe to request support for his candidature for the African Union Commission chairpersonship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Odinga is one of four candidates in the race to succeed the incumbent, Moussa Faki, who has held the position since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">He is vying for the post against Djibouti Foreign Affairs Minister Tahtoud Ali Youssof, Somalia&#8217;s Fawzia Yusuf Adam, and Seychelles&#8217; former Vice President Vincent Meriton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Mr Odinga&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501140447.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>President Mnangagwa today (Monday) received Kenyan opposition leader Mr Raila Odinga who is in Zimbabwe to request support for his candidature for the African Union Commission chairpersonship. Mr Odinga is one of four candidates in the race to succeed the incumbent, Moussa Faki, who has held the position since 2017. He is vying for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188663,"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":[258,256,430,6097,257,6519,9145,10917,8111,254,6096,7319,7726],"class_list":["post-188662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-post","tag-raila","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-top","tag-zimbabwes"],"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\/188662","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=188662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}