{"id":189881,"date":"2025-01-28T16:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-ignore-fake-viral-graphic-claiming-djiboutis-mahmoud-youssouf-rejected-billions-of-kenyan-shillings-to-drop-bid-for-top-african-union-job\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T14:40:46","slug":"djibouti-ignore-fake-viral-graphic-claiming-djiboutis-mahmoud-youssouf-rejected-billions-of-kenyan-shillings-to-drop-bid-for-top-african-union-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-ignore-fake-viral-graphic-claiming-djiboutis-mahmoud-youssouf-rejected-billions-of-kenyan-shillings-to-drop-bid-for-top-african-union-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti: Ignore Fake Viral Graphic Claiming Djibouti&#8217;s Mahmoud Youssouf Rejected Billions of Kenyan Shillings to Drop Bid for Top African Union Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Ignore fake viral graphic claiming Djibouti&#8217;s Mahmoud Youssouf rejected billions of Kenyan shillings to drop bid for top African Union job <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1320107452359184&amp;set=a.113629819673626\" rel=\"noopener\">graphic<\/a> is getting social media <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=122209000988217799&amp;set=gm.1795986917855619&amp;idorvanity=663535177767471\" rel=\"noopener\">attention<\/a> in Kenya. It <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=2996799180480174&amp;set=a.154023048091149\" rel=\"noopener\">claims<\/a> that Djibouti&#8217;s candidate for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/en\/commission\" rel=\"noopener\">African Union Commission<\/a> (AUC) chairperson seat, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/sites\/default\/files\/pages\/44299-file-Djibouti-Mahmoud_Ali_Youssouf-CV-English.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">Mahamoud Ali Youssouf<\/a>, was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=2216600405404158&amp;set=gm.28240311978945938&amp;idorvanity=3733709626699514\" rel=\"noopener\">offered<\/a> money to drop his candidacy in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=9223543117705668&amp;set=a.407815082611893\" rel=\"noopener\">favour<\/a> of Kenya&#8217;s former prime minister <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RailaOdinga\">Raila Odinga<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Text on the graphic <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=2187771371619350&amp;set=a.261041330959040\" rel=\"noopener\">reads<\/a>: &#8220;Djibouti&#8217;s Mahamoud Ali Youssouf Rejects Shs. 6 Billion Offer from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280310.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignore fake viral graphic claiming Djibouti&#8217;s Mahmoud Youssouf rejected billions of Kenyan shillings to drop bid for top African Union job A graphic is getting social media attention in Kenya. It claims that Djibouti&#8217;s candidate for the African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson seat, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, was offered money to drop his candidacy in favour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":189882,"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":[567],"tags":[258,256,4380,10798,12854,18590,4701,568,7235,7431,6891,28476,13180,9679,4524,12725,257,9170,27402,254,7319,6156,13080,50514],"class_list":["post-189881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-bid","tag-billions","tag-claiming","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-drop","tag-fake","tag-graphic","tag-ignore","tag-job","tag-kenyan","tag-mahmoud","tag-news","tag-rejected","tag-shillings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-union","tag-viral","tag-youssouf"],"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\/189881","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=189881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}