{"id":203391,"date":"2025-07-27T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-vocal-ruto-critic-abducted-in-dar-es-salaam\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T13:35:10","slug":"kenya-vocal-ruto-critic-abducted-in-dar-es-salaam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-vocal-ruto-critic-abducted-in-dar-es-salaam\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Vocal Ruto Critic &#8216;Abducted&#8217; in Dar es Salaam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenyan activist Mwabili Mwagodi, a leading critic of President William Ruto&#8217;s church fundraising spree, has been reported missing in Dar es Salaam under circumstances that rights groups claim point to a possible abduction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Mwagodi &#8212; a vocal online activist and outspoken critic of church-based political fundraising activities &#8212; went missing on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">He was last seen in Kigamboni, where he works at Amani Beach Hotel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Hussein Khalid, CEO of Vocal Africa, a human rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507250480.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 Kenyan activist Mwabili Mwagodi, a leading critic of President William Ruto&#8217;s church fundraising spree, has been reported missing in Dar es Salaam under circumstances that rights groups claim point to a possible abduction. Mwagodi &#8212; a vocal online activist and outspoken critic of church-based political fundraising activities &#8212; went missing on Wednesday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541544:e1f4966f9da93c1c180c281ee6754663:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[3271,258,256,12863,9956,4688,430,257,11238,18154,254,51517],"class_list":["post-203391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-critic","tag-dar","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-salaam","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vocal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541544:e1f4966f9da93c1c180c281ee6754663:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203391","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=203391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}