{"id":21039,"date":"2015-11-05T03:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T03:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-uhuru-kenyatta-travels-to-tanzania-for\/"},"modified":"2015-11-05T03:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T03:08:41","slug":"president-uhuru-kenyatta-travels-to-tanzania-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-uhuru-kenyatta-travels-to-tanzania-for\/","title":{"rendered":"President Uhuru Kenyatta travels to Tanzania for John Magufuli inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta Thursday morning travelled to Dar-es-Salaam to attend the inauguration ceremony of Tanzania\u2019s President-elect John Pombe Magufuli.}<\/p>\n<p>The President and the First Lady, whose flight took off shortly before 9am, were seen off at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Deputy President William Ruto and a delegation of government officials. Several African leaders are due Thursday in the economic capital Dar es Salaam for Magufuli&#8217;s swearing in, including the African<br \/>\nUnion chairman, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and regional heads of state. <\/p>\n<p>Ruling party candidate John Magufuli won Tanzania&#8217;s hotly contested presidential elections with over 58 percent of votes, cementing the long-running Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party&#8217;s firm grip on power. Samia Suluhu Hassan, who comes from Zanzibar, will become Tanzania&#8217;s first ever female vice president. Outgoing Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has declared the day a holiday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-8981 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/uhuru-3.jpg\" alt=\"President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta at JKIA shortly before leaving for Tanzania where they will attend John Magufuli&#039;s swearing in ceremony \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>STANDARD MEDIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Uhuru Kenyatta and First Lady Margaret Kenyatta Thursday morning travelled to Dar-es-Salaam to attend the inauguration ceremony of Tanzania\u2019s President-elect John Pombe Magufuli.} The President and the First Lady, whose flight took off shortly before 9am, were seen off at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Deputy President William Ruto and a delegation of government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070037,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21039.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21039.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21039.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21039.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21039.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21039.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21039"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}