{"id":225067,"date":"2026-02-25T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-karua-besigyes-wife-protest-trial-delay-as-opposition-leaders-health-declines\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:13:57","slug":"kenya-karua-besigyes-wife-protest-trial-delay-as-opposition-leaders-health-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-karua-besigyes-wife-protest-trial-delay-as-opposition-leaders-health-declines\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Karua, Besigye&#8217;s Wife Protest Trial Delay As Opposition Leader&#8217;s Health Declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Senior counsel Martha Karua and Winnie Byanyima, wife of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, have expressed grave concern over his worsening health amid prolonged incarceration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Besigye, a former presidential candidate, was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2024 and deported to Uganda, facing charges related to illegal firearm possession and alleged plans to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">More than a year later, his trial has yet to commence, alarming family, supporters, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250217.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 Senior counsel Martha Karua and Winnie Byanyima, wife of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye, have expressed grave concern over his worsening health amid prolonged incarceration. Besigye, a former presidential candidate, was arrested in Nairobi, Kenya, in November 2024 and deported to Uganda, facing charges related to illegal firearm possession and alleged plans to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":225068,"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":[258,256,50039,14017,8036,5731,20040,4688,430,4381,257,5675,2194,254,6564,8963],"class_list":["post-225067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-besigyes","tag-declines","tag-delay","tag-health","tag-karua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leaders","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-protest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-wife"],"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\/225067","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=225067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}