{"id":32993,"date":"2023-05-03T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/kenya-opposition-says-it-2\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:54:05","slug":"kenya-opposition-says-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/kenya-opposition-says-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya opposition says it suspends protests after agreement with government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI (Reuters) &#8211;     Kenya&#8217;s opposition on Wednesday said they had suspended the latest anti-government protests planned for Thursday after reaching an agreement with the government of President William Ruto. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the opposition Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of Unity) alliance, led by veteran opposition politician Raila Odinga, said its leadership had met and &#8220;agreed to once more suspend the mass protests that we had earlier scheduled to continue tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision to suspend the protests was taken after Ruto&#8217;s ruling Kenya Kwanza (Kenya First) alliance agreed &#8220;to one of our demands,&#8221; according to the statement. The opposition did not provide details of the agreement. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday the coalition resumed the twice-weekly protests begun in March to highlight high living costs and alleged fraud in last year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga is also using the protests to pile political pressure on Ruto, whom he accuses of rigging his victory in last year&#8217;s polls. <\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations have been marred by clashes between police and protesters as well as sporadic violent incidents like the torching of property and use of teargas. <\/p>\n<p>In early April the opposition had suspended the protests after agreeing to talks with Ruto&#8217;s representatives, but later announced the protests would resume, accusing the government of not negotiating in good faith.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Humphrey Malalo; writing by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by Leslie Adler)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/kenya-opposition-says-it-2\/nationwide-protest-over-cost-of-living-and-against-president-william\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420SN-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420SN-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI (Reuters) &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s opposition on Wednesday said they had suspended the latest anti-government protests planned for Thursday after reaching an agreement with the government of President William Ruto. In a statement, the opposition Azimio La Umoja (Declaration of Unity) alliance, led by veteran opposition politician Raila Odinga, said its leadership had met and &#8220;agreed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ420SN-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32995,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32993\/revisions\/32995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}