{"id":197943,"date":"2025-05-12T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-finnish-president-alexander-stubb-begins-3-day-historic-state-visit-to-kenya\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T10:22:38","slug":"kenya-finnish-president-alexander-stubb-begins-3-day-historic-state-visit-to-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-finnish-president-alexander-stubb-begins-3-day-historic-state-visit-to-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Finnish President Alexander Stubb Begins 3-Day Historic State Visit to Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President Alexander Stubb of Finland, accompanied by his spouse Suzanne Innes-Stubb, arrived in Kenya on Monday for a three-day state visit aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between the two nations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The visit, held at the invitation of President William Ruto, marks a historic milestone as it is the first-ever presidential visit from Finland to Kenya and the first state visit between the two countries in 38 years&#8211;following the visit by former Kenyan President Daniel&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505120337.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 Alexander Stubb of Finland, accompanied by his spouse Suzanne Innes-Stubb, arrived in Kenya on Monday for a three-day state visit aimed at strengthening diplomatic and economic ties between the two nations. The visit, held at the invitation of President William Ruto, marks a historic milestone as it is the first-ever presidential visit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":197944,"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":[250],"tags":[19616,258,256,9638,8082,37103,13203,4688,430,257,2450,254,6017,51332,6250],"class_list":["post-197943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-3day","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alexander","tag-begins","tag-finnish","tag-historic","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-stubb","tag-visit"],"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\/197943","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=197943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}