{"id":250240,"date":"2026-11-13T22:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-mudavadi-mbadi-back-increased-african-funding-to-reduce-aus-reliance-on-donors\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T22:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T20:00:17","slug":"africa-mudavadi-mbadi-back-increased-african-funding-to-reduce-aus-reliance-on-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-mudavadi-mbadi-back-increased-african-funding-to-reduce-aus-reliance-on-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Mudavadi, Mbadi Back Increased African Funding to Reduce AU&#8217;s Reliance On Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi have backed a new financing framework to reduce the African Union&#8217;s dependence on external donors and strengthen its financial independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The two Cabinet Secretaries said African countries must take greater responsibility for funding the continental body&#8217;s operations and development programmes amid declining predictability of foreign aid, rising public debt and growing global economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130532.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 Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi and Treasury Cabinet Secretary John Mbadi have backed a new financing framework to reduce the African Union&#8217;s dependence on external donors and strengthen its financial independence. The two Cabinet Secretaries said African countries must take greater responsibility for funding the continental body&#8217;s operations and development programmes amid declining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":250241,"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":[258,256,4380,19113,12682,6141,7393,430,30500,32338,257,8391,19618,254],"class_list":["post-250240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-aus","tag-donors","tag-funding","tag-increased","tag-kenya-news","tag-mbadi","tag-mudavadi","tag-news","tag-reduce","tag-reliance","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/250240","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=250240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}