{"id":187364,"date":"2025-11-03T04:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=187364"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:00:17","slug":"former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=187364","title":{"rendered":"Former Kenyan premier Raila Odinga, a key figure in African politics, dies at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) \u2014 Raila Odinga , a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial presidential candidate whose populist campaigns rattled authorities and gave him an outsized influence on political life in his East African country, died Wednesday o&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sudbury.com\/world-news\/former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80-11348457\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) \u2014 Raila Odinga , a former prime minister of Kenya and perennial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80.jpgw-960",960,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80-150x150.jpgw-960",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80-300x200.jpgw-960",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80-768x512.jpgw-960",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80.jpgw-960",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80.jpgw-960",960,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80.jpgw-960",960,640,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80.jpgw-960",960,640,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80-825x575.jpgw-960",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/187364-former-kenyan-premier-raila-odinga-a-key-figure-in-african-politics-dies-at-80-590x410.jpgw-960",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}