{"id":201127,"date":"2025-06-28T02:33:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-suspends-planned-embu-tour-after-june-25-protest-deaths-business-losses\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T02:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:33:33","slug":"kenya-gachagua-suspends-planned-embu-tour-after-june-25-protest-deaths-business-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-suspends-planned-embu-tour-after-june-25-protest-deaths-business-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Suspends Planned Embu Tour After June 25 Protest Deaths, Business Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has cancelled a planned three-day tour of Embu which was slated to begin on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">In a statement to newsrooms, Gachagua said he had taken the decision following the June 25 demonstrations called by Gen Z youth in which 16 people were killed and more 400 sustained injuries after suspected hired goons inflitrated the demos and engaged in a wave of looting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">&#8220;It is in solidarity with the young people who lost their lives yesterday and the business&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506270468.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 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has cancelled a planned three-day tour of Embu which was slated to begin on Friday. In a statement to newsrooms, Gachagua said he had taken the decision following the June 25 demonstrations called by Gen Z youth in which 16 people were killed and more 400 sustained injuries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":201128,"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":[4338,258,256,8601,5913,36131,7486,4688,430,9741,257,7665,2194,254,10452,8160],"class_list":["post-201127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaths","tag-embu","tag-gachagua","tag-june","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-losses","tag-news","tag-planned","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends","tag-tour"],"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\/201127","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=201127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}