{"id":3673,"date":"2025-11-09T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/kenyas-ruto-on-protests-power-and-the-state-of-democracy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:35:33","slug":"kenyas-ruto-on-protests-power-and-the-state-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/kenyas-ruto-on-protests-power-and-the-state-of-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya\u2019s Ruto on protests, power, and the state of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"root\"><main id=\"main-content-area\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-label=\"Main content area\"><\/p>\n<div class>\n<header><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/talk-to-al-jazeera\/\"><span>Talk to Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/header>\n<p>After deadly protests and a youth uprising, Kenya\u2019s president defends his record on democracy, rights, and reform.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan President William Ruto talks to Al Jazeera about the nationwide protests that left dozens dead, accusations of police brutality and enforced disappearances, and whether he\u2019s betrayed the \u201chustler\u201d generation that helped elect him. He also addresses Kenya\u2019s economic challenges, its leadership role in Haiti, and regional accusations of interference in Sudan\u2019s war. As scrutiny grows at home, Ruto insists Kenya\u2019s democracy remains intact, and his promise of transformation, unbroken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk to Al Jazeera After deadly protests and a youth uprising, Kenya\u2019s president defends his record on democracy, rights, and reform. Kenyan President William Ruto talks to Al Jazeera about the nationwide protests that left dozens dead, accusations of police brutality and enforced disappearances, and whether he\u2019s betrayed the \u201chustler\u201d generation that helped elect him. &#8230; <a title=\"Kenya\u2019s Ruto on protests, power, and the state of democracy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/kenyas-ruto-on-protests-power-and-the-state-of-democracy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kenya\u2019s Ruto on protests, power, and the state of democracy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}