{"id":25637,"date":"2022-09-15T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=25637"},"modified":"2022-09-15T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:36:00","slug":"kenyan-leader-deletes-tweet-revoking-western-sahara-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/09\/15\/kenyan-leader-deletes-tweet-revoking-western-sahara-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan leader deletes tweet revoking Western Sahara links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".1zr5sfoxidu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6322c3819ec49f77eefbe362.0.6.0.0:$post_1\">Kenya&#8217;s President William Ruto <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamsRuto\/status\/1570067379027169286\">deleted a tweet<\/a> revoking Kenya\u2019s long-standing recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) following a meeting with Morocco Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1zr5sfoxidu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6322c3819ec49f77eefbe362.0.6.0.0:$post_2\">\u201cKenya rescinds its recognition of the SADR and initiates steps to wind down the entity\u2019s presence in the country,\u201d Mr Ruto had said on Twitter a day after being sworn in as Kenya\u2019s fifth president.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1zr5sfoxidu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6322c3819ec49f77eefbe362.0.6.0.0:$post_3\">He also expressed support for the UN framework overseeing the dispute over Western Sahara, which has historically been claimed by Morocco and the Sahrawi independence movement, Polisario Front.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1zr5sfoxidu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6322c3819ec49f77eefbe362.0.6.0.0:$post_4\">SADR President Brahim Ghali was among the leaders who attended Ruto&#8217;s inauguration ceremony on 13 September.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1zr5sfoxidu.0.2.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1.1:$post-6322c3819ec49f77eefbe362.0.6.0.0:$post_5\">Western Sahara is recognised by the African Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s President William Ruto deleted a tweet revoking Kenya\u2019s long-standing recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) following a meeting with Morocco Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. \u201cKenya rescinds its recognition of the SADR and initiates steps to wind down the entity\u2019s presence in the country,\u201d Mr Ruto had said on Twitter a day after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":25638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4899,5569,913,12785,5345,8601,1063,9833,5457,7310,12287,3805,5350,5465,7231,7563,594],"class_list":["post-25637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-african","tag-arab","tag-democratic","tag-dispute","tag-foreign-minister","tag-independence","tag-kenya","tag-meeting","tag-morocco","tag-morroco","tag-movement","tag-president","tag-twitter","tag-un","tag-union","tag-william-ruto","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}