{"id":47648,"date":"2026-10-09T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47648"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:49:03","slug":"un-race-for-secretary-general-remains-unresolved","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/un-race-for-secretary-general-remains-unresolved\/","title":{"rendered":"UN race for Secretary-General remains unresolved\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The race to choose the next United Nations (UN) Secretary-General remains unresolved.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">This is after five rounds of informal voting, with frontrunner Rebeca Grynspan yet to secure decisive backing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">International Crisis Group analyst Daniel Forti says the next round of voting could reveal opposition from countries holding veto power in the UN Security Council.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Forti warns that continued divisions among member states could also create an opportunity for a late entrant to join the race.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">With the new Secretary-General expected to take office in January, the narrowing transition period adds urgency to the selection process.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45977,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-47648","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Race to choose the next UN Secretary-General continues","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47648","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\/47648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47649,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47648\/revisions\/47649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}