{"id":210025,"date":"2025-10-16T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-govt-mourns-raila-odinga\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:07:52","slug":"uganda-govt-mourns-raila-odinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/uganda-govt-mourns-raila-odinga\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Govt Mourns Raila Odinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The government has joined Kenya and the wider East African community in mourning the death of veteran opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga, describing him as &#8220;a man who put the love of his nation above self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Dr Chris Baryomunsi, Uganda&#8217;s Minister for ICT and National Guidance, expressed deep sorrow over Odinga&#8217;s passing, hailing him as a statesman who &#8220;cherished democratic governance and unity for humanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;We join our brothers and sisters in Kenya in mourning a great son of Africa,&#8221; Baryomunsi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160049.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>The government has joined Kenya and the wider East African community in mourning the death of veteran opposition leader Raila Amolo Odinga, describing him as &#8220;a man who put the love of his nation above self.&#8221; Dr Chris Baryomunsi, Uganda&#8217;s Minister for ICT and National Guidance, expressed deep sorrow over Odinga&#8217;s passing, hailing him as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":210026,"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":[258,256,4357,430,9061,257,6519,10917,254,4707],"class_list":["post-210025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-govt","tag-kenya-news","tag-mourns","tag-news","tag-odinga","tag-raila","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda"],"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\/210025","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=210025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}