{"id":95745,"date":"2024-09-24T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/24\/president-ruto-meets-ford-foundation-president\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T16:03:11","slug":"president-ruto-meets-ford-foundation-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/president-ruto-meets-ford-foundation-president\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ruto meets Ford Foundation President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-paragraph-padding-1\">\n<p><strong>President William Ruto Monday held talks with the President of Ford Foundation, Darren Walker in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, President Ruto underscored Kenya\u2019s commitment to Democratic Governance, Rule of Law, and respect for Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that with the democratic backsliding in many parts of the world, it was imperative to safeguard democracy particularly in Africa, from dangers of disinformation and manipulation of the digital space for non-democratic ends.<\/p>\n<p>Ford Foundation\u2019s President applauded President Ruto for being a strong voice at the international stage on matters touching on reforming global economic governance institutions, climate change, and technology regulation and committed Ford\u2019s willingness to support Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>President Ruto thanked the Foundation for investing in Kenya\u2019s Development over the last 60 years and agreed on the need to upgrade the institution\u2019s Host Country Agreement and provide a robust framework for realization of mutual objectives.<\/p>\n<p>Present at the meeting were Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/president-ruto-meets-ford-foundation-president\/\">President Ruto meets Ford Foundation President<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/president-ruto-meets-ford-foundation-president\/\">President Ruto meets Ford Foundation President<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President William Ruto Monday held talks with the President of Ford Foundation, Darren Walker in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. During the meeting, President Ruto underscored Kenya\u2019s commitment to Democratic Governance, Rule of Law, and respect for Human Rights. He noted that with the democratic backsliding in many parts [&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-95745","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\/95745","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=95745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}