{"id":193106,"date":"2025-03-08T06:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-signs-crucial-collaboration-deal-with-opposition-politician\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T06:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T04:34:49","slug":"kenya-ruto-signs-crucial-collaboration-deal-with-opposition-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-signs-crucial-collaboration-deal-with-opposition-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Signs Crucial Collaboration Deal With Opposi\\tion Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga says the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the United Democratic Alliance is not a coalition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking after the signing of the framework, Odinga indicated that the success of the agreement might open the door for talks about a possible merger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He pointed out that the agreement was aimed at addressing the prevailing political, social, and economic challenges in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">&#8220;Today, you have signed a memorandum of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070437.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 Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga says the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with the United Democratic Alliance is not a coalition. Speaking after the signing of the framework, Odinga indicated that the success of the agreement might open the door for talks about a possible merger. He pointed out that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610784:32c5274cd32dcd6d830f024be5b73c59:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,7289,7774,7012,4688,430,257,5675,8314,11238,6428,254],"class_list":["post-193106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collaboration","tag-crucial","tag-deal","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-politician","tag-ruto","tag-signs","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn07.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00610784:32c5274cd32dcd6d830f024be5b73c59:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193106","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=193106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}