{"id":15754,"date":"2020-06-19T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=15754"},"modified":"2020-06-19T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T06:56:04","slug":"kenya-wins-africas-security-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/kenya-wins-africas-security-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya wins Africa&#8217;s Security Council seat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya was elected to the UN Security Council on Thursday after defeating Djibouti in a run-off vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The east African nation will replace South Africa in the non-permanent seat. It received 129 votes against Djibouti&#8217;s 62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta said the win was a &#8220;demonstration of the country&#8217;s growing profile and influence in the community of nations as a steadfast and dependable development partner&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He thanked Djibouti for being a &#8220;worthwhile opponent&#8221; and the African Union (AU) for its endorsement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Djibouti and Kenya had failed to clinch the two thirds majority (128 votes) in the first round of voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Kenyatta said the country will consolidate and voice Africa&#8217;s position in the Security Council and will advance its 10-point agenda outlined in its campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya was elected to the UN Security Council on Thursday after defeating Djibouti in a run-off vote. The east African nation will replace South Africa in the non-permanent seat. It received 129 votes against Djibouti&#8217;s 62. Kenya&#8217;s President Uhuru Kenyatta said the win was a &#8220;demonstration of the country&#8217;s growing profile and influence in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":15756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15757,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15754\/revisions\/15757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}