{"id":6523,"date":"2025-10-15T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powershiftafrica.org\/press-releases\/in-tribute-to-the-late-rt-hon-raila-amolo-odinga-mohamed-adow-founder-and-director-of-power-shift-africa-mourns-a-lifelong-champion-of-climate-action-human-rights-and-justice"},"modified":"2026-10-28T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T10:02:37","slug":"in-tribute-to-the-late-rt-hon-raila-amolo-odinga-mohamed-adow-founder-and-director-of-power-shift-africa-mourns-a-lifelong-champion-of-climate-action-human-rights-and-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/press-releases\/in-tribute-to-the-late-rt-hon-raila-amolo-odinga-mohamed-adow-founder-and-director-of-power-shift-africa-mourns-a-lifelong-champion-of-climate-action-human-rights-and-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"In tribute to the late Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, Mohamed Adow, Founder and Director of Power Shift Africa, mourns \u2018a lifelong champion of climate action, human rights and justice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/657880dcd408ac495a5cc888\/b68bf90f-6d45-4df6-879e-845138e639b7\/raila.jpg?format=original\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NAIROBI, OCTOBER 15, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I, and the entire Power Shift Africa community, join fellow Kenyans and the world in mourning the passing of Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, a statesman and pan-Africanist whose vision and courage transcended politics. His life\u2019s work embodied an unwavering commitment to social, economic, environmental and human justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raila Odinga understood that the health of a nation depends on the health of its people and its environment. Long before climate action became a global imperative, he spoke of the need to protect Kenya\u2019s forests, rivers, and biodiversity. He saw conservation as a moral duty that was intertwined with the fight against inequality and poverty.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raila Odinga understood that the health of a nation depends on the health of its people and its environment. Long before climate action became a global imperative, he spoke of the need to protect Kenya\u2019s forests, rivers, and biodiversity. He saw conservation as a moral duty that was intertwined with the fight against inequality and poverty.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[27],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-climate-justice"],"acf":{"url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9591,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/9591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/powershiftafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}