{"id":7398,"date":"2022-09-13T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2022-09-13T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T16:49:07","slug":"kenyas-ruto-sworn-in-as-fifth-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/photonews\/2022\/09\/13\/news\/7398\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Ruto sworn in as fifth president"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7399\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7399\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/kenya-2-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenya&#8217;s outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta (L) shakes hands with newly elected President William Ruto (R) during Ruto&#8217;s swearing-in ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sept. 13, 2022.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NAIROBI, Broadcasting News Corporation : Kenya&#8217;s newly elected President William Ruto was sworn in as the country&#8217;s fifth president at a ceremony in the capital, Nairobi on Tuesday. Ruto took the oath of office in a peaceful handover ceremony attended by 20 African leaders including global dignitaries after a tightly contested election. Ruto, born in 1966, won the August 9 elections, beating veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga narrowly in a presidential election that was later confirmed by the country&#8217;s Supreme Court. Uhuru Kenyatta, the outgoing president, handed over instruments of power to Ruto amid tight security in and around the venue.<br \/>\nNEWS COLLECTED FROM XINHUA NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Broadcasting News Corporation : Kenya&#8217;s newly elected President William Ruto was sworn in as the country&#8217;s fifth president at a ceremony in the capital, Nairobi on Tuesday. Ruto took the oath of office in a peaceful handover ceremony attended by 20 African leaders including global dignitaries after a tightly contested election. Ruto, born in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7400,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/7400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}