{"id":38661,"date":"2026-07-03T07:35:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38661"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:35:27","slug":"kenya-court-orders-president-ruto-to-fix-cabinet-gender-imbalance","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-court-orders-president-ruto-to-fix-cabinet-gender-imbalance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya court orders President Ruto to fix cabinet gender imbalance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kenya&#8217;s High Court has ruled that President William Ruto&#8217;s cabinet does not meet the country&#8217;s constitutional requirements on gender representation, giving him 120 days to correct the imbalance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Judges found that the cabinet includes fewer women than required by the constitution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">However, it did not dissolve it or overturn any decisions it has already made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The Law Society of Kenya, which was among the parties that brought the case, says the ruling recognises that the cabinet is improperly constituted while allowing it to continue functioning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33849,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-38661","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"President William Ruto","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38661","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\/38661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38662,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38661\/revisions\/38662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}