{"id":4920,"date":"2024-02-24T15:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/photos-ruto-in-namibia-ahead-of-geingobs-state-funeral\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:03:44","slug":"photos-ruto-in-namibia-ahead-of-geingobs-state-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/photos-ruto-in-namibia-ahead-of-geingobs-state-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTOS: Ruto in Namibia ahead of Geingob\u2019s State Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 \u2014 President William Ruto arrived in Namibia on Satuday for the funeral of late President Hage Gaingob.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ruto is among 18 Heads of State attending a memorial event at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek ahead of the State Funeral on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Burial Service and wreath laying will take place at the Heroes\u2019 Acre monument.<\/p>\n<p>Geingob, a veteran of Namibian politics, was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 and died on February 4 while undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For a record 33 years, Geingob had served as Namibia\u2019s top politician. <\/p>\n<p>He succumbed in his second term as President and having served as as prime minister for 15 years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/image-9.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/image-10.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/image-11.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/image-12.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/image-13.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/image-14.png\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2024\/02\/image-15.png\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 24 \u2014 President William Ruto arrived in Namibia on Satuday for the funeral of late President Hage Gaingob. Ruto is among 18 Heads of State attending a memorial event at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek ahead of the State Funeral on Sunday. The Burial Service and wreath laying will take place at [&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-4920","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\/4920","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=4920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}