{"id":199379,"date":"2025-06-03T01:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-live-madaraka-day-celebrations-get-underway-in-homa-bay\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T01:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:38:11","slug":"kenya-live-madaraka-day-celebrations-get-underway-in-homa-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-live-madaraka-day-celebrations-get-underway-in-homa-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Live &#8211; Madaraka Day Celebrations Get Underway in Homa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Homa Bay \u2014 <em>President William Ruto is leading Madaraka Day celebrations in Homa Bay where the national event is taking place under the theme <em>&#8216;Harnessing Kenya&#8217;s Blue Economy for Sustainable Growth<\/em>.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Ruto arrived at the Raila Odinga Sadium shortly after 10am on Sunday accompanied by First Lady Rachel Ruto.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The national event, marking Kenya&#8217;s self-rule anniversary, is being graced by Slovenian President Nata\u0161a Pirc Musar, attending as a special guest at President Ruto&#8217;s invitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Also in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020680.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>Homa Bay \u2014 President William Ruto is leading Madaraka Day celebrations in Homa Bay where the national event is taking place under the theme &#8216;Harnessing Kenya&#8217;s Blue Economy for Sustainable Growth.&#8217; Ruto arrived at the Raila Odinga Sadium shortly after 10am on Sunday accompanied by First Lady Rachel Ruto. The national event, marking Kenya&#8217;s self-rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199380,"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":[258,256,8611,7637,7165,8610,4688,430,9191,21666,257,254,7639],"class_list":["post-199379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bay","tag-celebrations","tag-day","tag-homa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-live","tag-madaraka","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-underway"],"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\/199379","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=199379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}