{"id":213175,"date":"2025-11-10T21:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-odm-20th-anniversary-fete-kicks-off-this-week-ruto-to-grace-founders-dinner\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:04:20","slug":"kenya-odm-20th-anniversary-fete-kicks-off-this-week-ruto-to-grace-founders-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-odm-20th-anniversary-fete-kicks-off-this-week-ruto-to-grace-founders-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: ODM 20th Anniversary Fete Kicks Off This Week, Ruto to Grace Founders&#8217; Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) will kick off its 20th anniversary celebrations with a Disability League Breakfast in Mombasa on Friday, marking the start of a three-day commemoration of the event postponed in October.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The commemoration which will also honour the late party leader Raila Odinga, hailed as the Father of Modern Democracy in Kenya, will feature events attended by founding members including President William Ruto .<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Interim Party Leader Senator Oburu Oginga said ODM@20&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511100659.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 The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) will kick off its 20th anniversary celebrations with a Disability League Breakfast in Mombasa on Friday, marking the start of a three-day commemoration of the event postponed in October. The commemoration which will also honour the late party leader Raila Odinga, hailed as the Father of Modern Democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":213176,"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":[22844,258,256,8220,10377,18064,29054,6963,4688,430,7023,257,7022,11238,254,6653],"class_list":["post-213175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-20th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anniversary","tag-dinner","tag-fete","tag-founders","tag-grace","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kicks","tag-news","tag-odm","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-week"],"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\/213175","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=213175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}