{"id":17131,"date":"2025-02-14T08:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17131"},"modified":"2025-02-14T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:54:32","slug":"raila-odinga-eyes-historic-win-in-african-union-commission-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17131","title":{"rendered":"Raila Odinga Eyes Historic Win in African Union Commission Election."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/images.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17132\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All eyes will be on Addis Ababa on Saturday, February 15, as the African Union Commission (AUC) elects its next chairperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya\u2019s opposition leader Raila Odinga is among the top contenders, vying for the prestigious continental seat. His main challengers include Djibouti\u2019s Mahmoud Ali Yousouff and Madagascar\u2019s Richard J. Randriamandrato\u2014both seasoned leaders with impressive credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If successful, Odinga will become the first Kenyan to hold the influential AUC chairmanship, marking a significant milestone in the country&#8217;s diplomatic standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All eyes will be on Addis Ababa on Saturday, February 15, as the African Union Commission (AUC) elects its next chairperson. Kenya\u2019s opposition leader Raila Odinga is among the top contenders, vying for the prestigious continental seat. His main challengers include Djibouti\u2019s Mahmoud Ali Yousouff and Madagascar\u2019s Richard J. Randriamandrato\u2014both seasoned leaders with impressive credentials. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/images.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17133,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17131\/revisions\/17133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}