{"id":232436,"date":"2026-05-06T02:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-tanzania-mps-pray-for-rutos-2027-re-election-in-rare-parliamentary-gesture\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:52:54","slug":"kenya-tanzania-mps-pray-for-rutos-2027-re-election-in-rare-parliamentary-gesture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-tanzania-mps-pray-for-rutos-2027-re-election-in-rare-parliamentary-gesture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Tanzania MPs Pray for Ruto&#8217;s 2027 Re-Election in Rare Parliamentary Gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Tanzanian lawmakers on Tuesday offered prayers for President William Ruto&#8217;s re-election in 2027, in a show of political goodwill following his address to their Parliament in Dodoma.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking during the session, Ikungi West Member of Parliament Emmanuel Kingu led the remarks, telling the House that Tanzanians would continue to support Kenya and wish its leadership well in the next electoral cycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Kenyans did not make a mistake in electing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050666.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 Tanzanian lawmakers on Tuesday offered prayers for President William Ruto&#8217;s re-election in 2027, in a show of political goodwill following his address to their Parliament in Dodoma. Speaking during the session, Ikungi West Member of Parliament Emmanuel Kingu led the remarks, telling the House that Tanzanians would continue to support Kenya and wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":232437,"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":[258,256,25434,4688,430,7260,257,5855,9571,18582,13072,12640,254,746],"class_list":["post-232436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gesture","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-parliamentary","tag-pray","tag-rare","tag-reelection","tag-rutos","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanzania"],"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\/232436","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=232436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}