{"id":213130,"date":"2025-11-10T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-secures-release-of-abducted-activists-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T07:02:57","slug":"kenya-secures-release-of-abducted-activists-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-secures-release-of-abducted-activists-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Secures Release of Abducted Activists in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Nairobi \u2014 Kenya on Saturday confirmed the safe release of its two citizens, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were abducted by armed men in Kampala, Uganda, on October 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, their release followed intense diplomatic engagement between Nairobi and Kampala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi said both countries maintained &#8220;open and constructive communication&#8221; that led to the duo&#8217;s freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511100112.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 Kenya on Saturday confirmed the safe release of its two citizens, Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo, who were abducted by armed men in Kampala, Uganda, on October 1, 2025. According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, their release followed intense diplomatic engagement between Nairobi and Kampala. Foreign Affairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":213131,"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":[3271,6008,258,256,4688,430,257,6011,10429,254,4707],"class_list":["post-213130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abducted","tag-activists","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-release","tag-secures","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\/213130","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=213130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}