{"id":191550,"date":"2025-02-16T05:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T03:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/africa-djiboutis-youssouf-beats-raila-odinga-to-au-commission-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T05:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T03:53:26","slug":"africa-djiboutis-youssouf-beats-raila-odinga-to-au-commission-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/africa-djiboutis-youssouf-beats-raila-odinga-to-au-commission-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Djibouti&#8217;s Youssouf Beats Raila Odinga to AU Commission Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\"><em>Odinga&#8217;s defeat has elicited mixed reactions in Kenya. While some of his supporters expressed disappointment, others viewed it as an opportunity for Odinga to refocus on his political ambitions, particularly a potential bid for the Kenyan presidency in 2027.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Djibouti&#8217;s foreign minister Mohamoud Ali Youssouf claimed Raila Odinga&#8217;s scalp to run away with the coveted African Union Commission chairperson job following a fiercely contested election at the 38th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502150019.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>Odinga&#8217;s defeat has elicited mixed reactions in Kenya. While some of his supporters expressed disappointment, others viewed it as an opportunity for Odinga to refocus on his political ambitions, particularly a potential bid for the Kenyan presidency in 2027. Djibouti&#8217;s foreign minister Mohamoud Ali Youssouf claimed Raila Odinga&#8217;s scalp to run away with the coveted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661447:1778f46887fc7dfc99444124bdfcca84:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,8798,6412,6274,568,7235,257,6519,10917,254,50514],"class_list":["post-191550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beats","tag-chair","tag-commission","tag-djibouti-news","tag-djiboutis","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-raila","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youssouf"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn03.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661447:1778f46887fc7dfc99444124bdfcca84:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191550","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=191550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}