{"id":33118,"date":"2017-03-10T15:37:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/raila-odinga-leaves-to-see-rosemary-in-s-african\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T15:37:54","slug":"raila-odinga-leaves-to-see-rosemary-in-s-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/raila-odinga-leaves-to-see-rosemary-in-s-african\/","title":{"rendered":"Raila Odinga leaves to see Rosemary in S. African hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Opposition leader Raila Odinga has left the country for South Africa to visit his daughter Rosemary in hospital. } <\/p>\n<p>Mr Odinga left Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi shortly after 7am aboard aboard Kenya Airways flight destined for Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>{{Tumour }} <\/p>\n<p>He will be out of the country for slightly over a week, according to his spokesman Dennis Onyango.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Rosemary has been in a South African hospital for over a week, suffering from a brain tumour, even though doctors said it is not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>She is with her mother Ida and younger sister Winnie.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Mr Odinga will travel to the US from South Africa for a number of engagements.<\/p>\n<p>The trip comes after he was treated for food poisoning at Karen Hospital, Nairobi, raising concerns on his health.<\/p>\n<p>{{Poison }} <\/p>\n<p>However, he later clarified that he had not been poisoned but, was just a reaction to food that was not fit for his digestive system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis (food poisoning) is not the same thing as being poisoned,\u201d Mr Odinga said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know many Kenyans encounter this problem from time to time. It can cause quite a scare and, indeed, it did to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, he was expected to address governors on the final day of the 4th Annual Devolution Conference in Naivasha but, instead Kisumu Senator Anyang\u2019 Nyong\u2019o represented him.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18695 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dncordadress0904wdp.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Raila Odinga. He is set to visit the US after S. Africa. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Daily Nation <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Opposition leader Raila Odinga has left the country for South Africa to visit his daughter Rosemary in hospital. } Mr Odinga left Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi shortly after 7am aboard aboard Kenya Airways flight destined for Johannesburg. {{Tumour }} He will be out of the country for slightly over a week, according to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118","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=33118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33118"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33118"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}