{"id":214928,"date":"2025-11-26T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-president-ruto-urges-african-states-to-back-au-institutional-reforms\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:38:28","slug":"africa-president-ruto-urges-african-states-to-back-au-institutional-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-president-ruto-urges-african-states-to-back-au-institutional-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: President Ruto Urges African States to Back AU Institutional Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Luanda, Angola \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has called on African nations to rally behind the ongoing reforms of the African Union (AU), warning that failure to modernise the institution could weaken the continent&#8217;s global influence and slow development progress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Speaking in Luanda, Angola, where he chaired the AU Institutional Reform Ad Hoc Committee Meeting of Heads of State, President Ruto &#8212; who also serves as the AU Champion for Institutional Reform &#8212; stressed that the transformation of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511260092.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>Luanda, Angola \u2014 President William Ruto has called on African nations to rally behind the ongoing reforms of the African Union (AU), warning that failure to modernise the institution could weaken the continent&#8217;s global influence and slow development progress. Speaking in Luanda, Angola, where he chaired the AU Institutional Reform Ad Hoc Committee Meeting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":214929,"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":[258,256,4380,26308,430,257,2450,7580,11238,254,6484,6810],"class_list":["post-214928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-institutional","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-reforms","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states","tag-urges"],"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\/214928","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=214928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}