{"id":191695,"date":"2025-02-18T05:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-ruto-commits-to-advancing-africas-agenda-after-auc-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T05:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T03:19:21","slug":"africa-ruto-commits-to-advancing-africas-agenda-after-auc-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-ruto-commits-to-advancing-africas-agenda-after-auc-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Ruto Commits to Advancing Africa&#8217;s Agenda After AUC Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has emphasized that the election of the African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, which saw Djibouti&#8217;s Mahmoud Ali Youssouf emerge victorious, was not about individual candidates or national interests but about shaping the continent&#8217;s future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Youssouf secured the position after obtaining the required two-thirds majority with 33 votes in the seventh round of voting on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">His victory came after Kenya&#8217;s Raila Odinga was eliminated in the sixth round, where&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502170807.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>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has emphasized that the election of the African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, which saw Djibouti&#8217;s Mahmoud Ali Youssouf emerge victorious, was not about individual candidates or national interests but about shaping the continent&#8217;s future. Youssouf secured the position after obtaining the required two-thirds majority with 33 votes in the seventh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":191696,"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":[27236,258,256,6287,5701,5444,10180,430,9183,257,11238,254],"class_list":["post-191695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-advancing","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-agenda","tag-auc","tag-commits","tag-kenya-news","tag-loss","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/191695","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=191695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}