{"id":74759,"date":"2025-10-15T22:28:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/15\/raila-odinga-former-kenya-pm-dies"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:28:49","slug":"raila-odinga-towering-kenyan-opposition-figure-dies-aged-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74759","title":{"rendered":"Raila Odinga, towering Kenyan opposition figure, dies aged 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Odinga, who ran five times for presidency and had profound influence on Kenyan politics, has died in India<\/p>\n<p>The veteran Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who ran five times for the presidency and had a profound influence on the country\u2019s politics, has died aged 80 in India.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga was in the southern city of Kochi for treatment. The Press Trust of India news agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/story\/national\/ex-kenya-pm-raila-odinga-dies-of-cardiac-arrest-in-kerala\/3008150\">reported<\/a> that he had a cardiac arrest during a morning walk.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/15\/raila-odinga-former-kenya-pm-dies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odinga, who ran five times for presidency and had profound influence on Kenyan politics, has died in IndiaThe veteran Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who ran five times for the presidency and had a profound influence on the country\u2019s politics, h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,62,1086,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-india","category-kenya","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74760,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74759\/revisions\/74760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}