{"id":233075,"date":"2026-05-13T03:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-guterres-highlights-africas-leadership-in-speech-to-summit-in-nairobi\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:08:08","slug":"africa-guterres-highlights-africas-leadership-in-speech-to-summit-in-nairobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-guterres-highlights-africas-leadership-in-speech-to-summit-in-nairobi\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Guterres Highlights Africa&#8217;s Leadership in Speech to Summit in Nairobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Africa continues to advance and demands investment at scale, justice in global systems, and partnerships grounded in respect, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The UN chief was speaking at the opening of the Africa Forward Summit, co-hosted in Nairobi by Kenyan President William Ruto and French President Emmanuel Macron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;<strong>The name of this Summit captures the moment &#8211; and the mission,<\/strong>&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/statements\/2026-05-12\/secretary-generals-remarks-the-opening-of-the-africa-forward-summit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;<strong>Africa is not waiting. Africa is moving. Africa is leading.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><strong>Driving debate,&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605120697.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>Africa continues to advance and demands investment at scale, justice in global systems, and partnerships grounded in respect, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said on Tuesday. The UN chief was speaking at the opening of the Africa Forward Summit, co-hosted in Nairobi by Kenyan President William Ruto and French President Emmanuel Macron. &#8220;The name of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":233076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681423:e3a822f819e5dbbdc91b6716cb9b0f98:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6287,6512,8250,430,8771,259,257,254,8769,5757],"class_list":["post-233075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-guterres","tag-highlights","tag-kenya-news","tag-leadership","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speech","tag-summit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681423:e3a822f819e5dbbdc91b6716cb9b0f98:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233075","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=233075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}