{"id":193554,"date":"2025-03-14T19:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/kenya-senator-sifuna-among-african-leaders-denied-entry-into-angola\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:04:42","slug":"kenya-senator-sifuna-among-african-leaders-denied-entry-into-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/kenya-senator-sifuna-among-african-leaders-denied-entry-into-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Senator Sifuna Among African Leaders Denied Entry Into Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Nairobi \u2014 Kenya&#8217;s Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna was among a group of senior political leaders from across Africa denied entry into Angola on Thursday, despite being invited by the country&#8217;s main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The delegation, which included Tanzania&#8217;s opposition figure Tundu Lissu and other prominent politicians, had traveled to Luanda for a two-day meeting but was blocked by Angolan immigration authorities upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;UNITA&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya&#8217;s Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna was among a group of senior political leaders from across Africa denied entry into Angola on Thursday, despite being invited by the country&#8217;s main opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). The delegation, which included Tanzania&#8217;s opposition figure Tundu Lissu and other prominent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4380,8700,3941,4263,7634,6425,4688,4381,257,7798,47245,254],"class_list":["post-193554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-among","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-denied","tag-entry","tag-kenya","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-senator","tag-sifuna","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193554","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=193554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}