{"id":221424,"date":"2026-01-22T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-appoints-ababu-namwamba-kenyas-new-high-commissioner-to-uganda\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:01:55","slug":"kenya-ruto-appoints-ababu-namwamba-kenyas-new-high-commissioner-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-appoints-ababu-namwamba-kenyas-new-high-commissioner-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Appoints Ababu Namwamba Kenya&#8217;s New High Commissioner to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Kenya&#8217;s President William Ruto has appointed former Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba as the country&#8217;s new High Commissioner to Uganda, replacing Ambassador Joash Maangi, who has served in Kampala since 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Maangi has been redeployed to Brussels as Kenya&#8217;s representative to the European Union. The appointments were confirmed on Wednesday evening in a statement by Kenya&#8217;s Head of Public Service, Felix Koskei.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;His Excellency the President has this afternoon sanctioned changes within the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601220054.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>Kenya&#8217;s President William Ruto has appointed former Sports Cabinet Secretary Ababu Namwamba as the country&#8217;s new High Commissioner to Uganda, replacing Ambassador Joash Maangi, who has served in Kampala since 2024. Maangi has been redeployed to Brussels as Kenya&#8217;s representative to the European Union. The appointments were confirmed on Wednesday evening in a statement by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":221425,"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":[43506,258,256,8752,6350,6184,4688,430,6097,13029,257,11238,254,4707],"class_list":["post-221424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-ababu","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoints","tag-commissioner","tag-high","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-namwamba","tag-news","tag-ruto","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\/221424","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=221424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}