{"id":934,"date":"2022-08-17T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=934"},"modified":"2022-08-17T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T14:21:55","slug":"african-women-leaders-call-for-peace-as-opposition-leader-rejects-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/08\/17\/african-women-leaders-call-for-peace-as-opposition-leader-rejects-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"African women leaders call for peace as opposition leader rejects election results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220817-WA0076-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220817-WA0076-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220817-WA0076-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220817-WA0076-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220817-WA0076-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220817-WA0076-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG-20220817-WA0076.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>African women leaders \u00a0on Tuesday called for peace as opposition leader Raila Odinga \u00a0rejected the presidential \u00a0election results announced by IEBC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jennifer Riria, Co-Chair, African Women Leaders Network (AWLN) told journalists in Nairobi that political &nbsp;candidates who may be aggrieved by the results &nbsp;should seek redress through legal means and avoid actions that may escalate violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe appeal to all mothers, Kenyans of goodwill and our faith leaders to earnestly pray for our country so that God will grant continued calm and peace during this period. As the womb bearers and Mothers of the nation we are confident that with God\u2019s help, our country will get over this phase,\u201d Riria said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Josephine Sinyo Co-Chair, AWLN said that &nbsp;Kenya has strong institutions with capacity to address disputes of any sort and urged &nbsp;all parties that took part in the election to revert to these institutions as the rest of the country resumes daily activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c We are aware that all our Four Presidential Candidates had signed a Peace Pledge to maintain peace before, during and after elections. We plead with them to be faithful to this commitment as well as any other decision made by the institutions mandated by our Constitution,\u201d Sinyo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African women leaders \u00a0on Tuesday called for peace as opposition leader Raila Odinga \u00a0rejected the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}