{"id":240919,"date":"2026-08-12T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-warns-kenya-not-safe-for-foreigners-cites-cross-border-abductions-deportations\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T04:33:27","slug":"kenya-gachagua-warns-kenya-not-safe-for-foreigners-cites-cross-border-abductions-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-gachagua-warns-kenya-not-safe-for-foreigners-cites-cross-border-abductions-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Gachagua Warns Kenya &#8216;Not Safe&#8217; for Foreigners, Cites Cross-Border Abductions, Deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has warned that Kenya is becoming unsafe for foreigners, accusing the Ruto administration of allowing a pattern of cross-border abductions, forced deportations and alleged transnational repression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Gachagua called on foreign embassies and diplomatic missions accredited to Kenya to take steps to protect their citizens and staff, arguing that the alleged incidents have raised serious concerns about the safety of foreigners in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110588.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has warned that Kenya is becoming unsafe for foreigners, accusing the Ruto administration of allowing a pattern of cross-border abductions, forced deportations and alleged transnational repression. Gachagua called on foreign embassies and diplomatic missions accredited to Kenya to take steps to protect their citizens and staff, arguing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[24929,258,256,5260,6503,27541,7770,36131,4688,430,257,6803,254,6853],"class_list":["post-240919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-abductions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cites","tag-crossborder","tag-deportations","tag-foreigners","tag-gachagua","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240919","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=240919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}