{"id":103423,"date":"2024-11-26T15:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/26\/mauritius-pm-ramgoolam-expresses-support-for-railas-auc-bid-in-phone-call-with-president-ruto\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T15:03:34","slug":"mauritius-pm-ramgoolam-expresses-support-for-railas-auc-bid-in-phone-call-with-president-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/mauritius-pm-ramgoolam-expresses-support-for-railas-auc-bid-in-phone-call-with-president-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius PM Ramgoolam expresses support for Raila\u2019s AUC bid in phone call with President Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 26 \u2013 Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam has expressed his support for Raila Odinga\u2019s African Union Commission bid. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This followed a telephone conversation with President William Ruto which saw Mauritius candidate Anil Gayan of effectively exiting the race.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, President Ruto expressed his appreciation even as he affirmed the cordial ties between the two countries. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had a telephone conversation with the newly-elected Prime Minister of Mauritius, Hon. Navinchandra Ramgoolam. I congratulated him on his election and for the faith the people of his country have shown in him and his party,\u201d President Ruto stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrime Minister Ramgloolam confirmed his support for Kenya\u2019s candidate to the African Union Commission Chairperson, Hon. Raila Odinga, for which I expressed much appreciation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto formally endorsed Odinga for the AUC role on August 27, in a ceremony attended by several East African leaders. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, Odinga introduced a team of political strategists and diplomats supporting his campaign, including Makumi Mwagiru, Boaz Mbaya, Mohamud Jama, Dismas Mokua, Catherine Mwangi, Ochieng\u2019 Kamudhayi, Herman Manyora, Tom Amolo, and Karuti Kanyinga.<\/p>\n<p>Odinga\u2019s main rival in the February 2025 election is Djibouti\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Mahmoud Youssouf. <\/p>\n<p>He also faces competition from Eastern African candidates Richard Randriamandrato of Madagascar.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 26 \u2013 Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam has expressed his support for Raila Odinga\u2019s African Union Commission bid. This followed a telephone conversation with President William Ruto which saw Mauritius candidate Anil Gayan of effectively exiting the race. During the conversation, President Ruto expressed his appreciation even as he affirmed the cordial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}