{"id":61204,"date":"2024-06-26T17:40:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=61204"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T17:40:04","slug":"kenya-president-backs-down-on-tax-hikes-after-deadly-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/06\/26\/kenya-president-backs-down-on-tax-hikes-after-deadly-unrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya president backs down on tax hikes after deadly unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61156\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/protests-Kenya-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/protests-Kenya-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/protests-Kenya-360x222.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/protests-Kenya.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday withdrew planned tax hikes, bowing to pressure from protesters who had\u00a0<a class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__inherit-color__3208F text__inherit-font__1Y8w3 text__inherit-size__1DZJi link__link__3Ji6W link__underline_default__2prE_\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/young-kenyan-tax-protesters-plan-nationwide-demonstrations-2024-06-25\/\" data-testid=\"Link\">stormed parliament<\/a>, launched demonstrations across the country\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/kenyan-protesters-promise-more-rallies-after-deadly-parliament-violence-2024-06-26\/\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday withdrew planned tax hikes, bowing to pressure from protesters who had\u00a0stormed parliament, launched demonstrations across the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ruto.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61205,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61204\/revisions\/61205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}