{"id":202920,"date":"2025-07-21T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nyanza-women-mourn-veteran-politician-phoebe-asiyo\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:23:08","slug":"kenya-nyanza-women-mourn-veteran-politician-phoebe-asiyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-nyanza-women-mourn-veteran-politician-phoebe-asiyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Nyanza Women Mourn Veteran Politician Phoebe Asiyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Kisumu \u2014 <em>Women leaders in the Nyanza region have described the late celebrated politician Phoebe Asiyo as a trailblazer for women in leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Kisumu West Member of Parliament Rosa Buyu says the death of Asiyo is a big loss to the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Buyu says the late Mama Asiyo confidently ventured into politics when it was unthinkable for women to get elected into Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;She trounced men at that time to be elected Member of Parliament for Karachuonyo, an indication she was a go-getter,&#8221; said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507180379.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>Kisumu \u2014 Women leaders in the Nyanza region have described the late celebrated politician Phoebe Asiyo as a trailblazer for women in leadership. Kisumu West Member of Parliament Rosa Buyu says the death of Asiyo is a big loss to the nation. Buyu says the late Mama Asiyo confidently ventured into politics when it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202921,"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":[258,256,51910,4688,430,13365,257,17006,40595,8314,254,8608,6524],"class_list":["post-202920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-asiyo","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mourn","tag-news","tag-nyanza","tag-phoebe","tag-politician","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veteran","tag-women"],"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\/202920","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=202920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}