{"id":139905,"date":"2026-05-05T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-receives-standing-ovation-in-tanzania-parliament-reception\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:02:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:02:45","slug":"ruto-receives-standing-ovation-in-tanzania-parliament-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/ruto-receives-standing-ovation-in-tanzania-parliament-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruto receives standing ovation in Tanzania parliament reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya May 5 \u2013 President William Ruto drew laughter and applause from Tanzanian Lawmakers after opening his address with a humorous take on the journey of the Kiswahili language during his historic speech in Parliament in Dodoma.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ruto, who is on a state visit to Tanzania, was invited to address the House a rare diplomatic honour that signaled warming ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>He began in Kiswahili but quickly switched to English after joking about the language\u2019s \u201cjourney\u201d across East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me begin my speech by giving you a history of Kiswahili. I came to learn, or was told, that Kiswahili was born in Zanzibar and came of age in mainland Tanzania. When it reached Kenya, it fell ill. By the time it got to Uganda, the illness worsened and it died, and the burial took place in Congo. For that reason, I ask for your forgiveness as I deliver my speech in English,\u201d he told the Tanzania legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The President paid tribute to founding leaders Julius Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta, saying they laid the foundation for regional unity and cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201dThey understood that Africa\u2019s future would not be secured in isolation but in unity and planted they planted the seed of regional integration because our destinies are intertwined and our strength lies in moving forward together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Musa Azzan Zungu warmly welcomed Ruto, describing his visit as a great honour to Tanzania\u2019s Parliament.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya May 5 \u2013 President William Ruto drew laughter and applause from Tanzanian Lawmakers after opening his address with a humorous take on the journey of the Kiswahili language during his historic speech in Parliament in Dodoma. Ruto, who is on a state visit to Tanzania, was invited to address the House a rare [&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-139905","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\/139905","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=139905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}