{"id":188770,"date":"2025-01-16T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-odinga-promises-unity-wants-guns-silenced\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T16:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:17:54","slug":"africa-odinga-promises-unity-wants-guns-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-odinga-promises-unity-wants-guns-silenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Odinga Promises Unity, Wants Guns Silenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has promised to end wars, unify African countries, and open doors for development if he takes over the reins as African Union Commission (AUC) chairman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He landed in Windhoek yesterday, and met President Nangolo Mbumba as part of Southern African leaders to drum up support for his AUC bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Speaking after the meeting at State House with Mbumba, Odinga articulated his vision for Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Among other things, uniting African countries and eliminating barriers to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501160243.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has promised to end wars, unify African countries, and open doors for development if he takes over the reins as African Union Commission (AUC) chairman. He landed in Windhoek yesterday, and met President Nangolo Mbumba as part of Southern African leaders to drum up support for his AUC bid. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188771,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,2235,724,257,6519,9343,12642,254,4019],"class_list":["post-188770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-guns","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-promises","tag-silenced","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unity"],"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\/188770","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}