{"id":13357,"date":"2025-10-17T18:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/odinga-hailed-as-a-towering-figure-in-kenyan-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:21","slug":"odinga-hailed-as-a-towering-figure-in-kenyan-politics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/odinga-hailed-as-a-towering-figure-in-kenyan-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Odinga hailed as a towering figure in Kenyan politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan President William Ruto has praised the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga\u2018s legacy of inclusion and political tolerance. Odinga has been accorded a state funeral in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He died on Wednesday, aged 80, while receiving medical treatment in India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Odinga, who ran for President five times, has been hailed as a towering figure in Kenyan politics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kenya bid farewell to one of the pre-eminent figures in the country\u2019s politics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Raila Odinga was known for his role on opposition benches, power-sharing agreements and concerted efforts to calm post-election tensions in the East African country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13358,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13357","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenyan President William Ruto has praised the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga\u2018s legacy of inclusion and political tolerance||Kenyan President William Ruto has praised the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga\u2018s legacy of inclusion and political tolerance","published_date":"2025-10-17 20:27:28||2025-10-17 20:27:28","news_description":"Kenyan President William Ruto has praised the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga\u2018s legacy of inclusion and political tolerance||Kenyan President William Ruto has praised the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga\u2018s legacy of inclusion and political tolerance","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18516,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13357\/revisions\/18516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}