{"id":97785,"date":"2024-09-29T10:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T10:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/29\/addis-ababa-based-tana-forum-board-names-uhuru-its-newest-member\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T10:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T10:03:21","slug":"addis-ababa-based-tana-forum-board-names-uhuru-its-newest-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/addis-ababa-based-tana-forum-board-names-uhuru-its-newest-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Addis Ababa-based Tana Forum Board names Uhuru its newest member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya Sep 29 \u2014 Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta has been appointed to Tana Forum Board, which explores local-led solutions to Africa\u2019s most pressing security challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kenyatta joins former leaders from Ghana, Malawi, Central African Republic namely John Dramani, Joyce Banda and Catherine Samba-Panza as well as former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Lassina Zerbo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tana Forum Secretariat is honoured to welcome Uhuru Kenyatta, former President of the Republic of Kenya, as the newest member of our distinguished Tana Board, who officially joined in March 2024,\u201d the board\u2019s secretariat said in a weekend announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith his vast knowledge and expertise, Kenyatta is set to greatly strengthen our collective efforts in advancing the Forum\u2019s mission and vision,\u201d Tana Forum said.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s constitutional lawyer Patrick Lumumba is also on the board chaired by Dramani.<\/p>\n<p>The group described Kenyatta\u2019s entry as significant owing to his experience in leading peace talks in Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa is an annual meeting that brings together African leaders and stakeholders to engage and explore African-led security solutions,\u201d the forum explained its mandate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Sep 29 \u2014 Retired President Uhuru Kenyatta has been appointed to Tana Forum Board, which explores local-led solutions to Africa\u2019s most pressing security challenges. President Kenyatta joins former leaders from Ghana, Malawi, Central African Republic namely John Dramani, Joyce Banda and Catherine Samba-Panza as well as former Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Lassina [&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-97785","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\/97785","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=97785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}