{"id":186427,"date":"2024-12-12T12:34:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-were-serious-about-creating-jobs-kindiki-tells-the-youth\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T12:34:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T10:34:06","slug":"kenya-were-serious-about-creating-jobs-kindiki-tells-the-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-were-serious-about-creating-jobs-kindiki-tells-the-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: We&#8217;re Serious About Creating Jobs, Kindiki Tells the Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to tackling unemployment and creating sustainable economic opportunities for Kenyans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Speaking at the conclusion of the inaugural Jamhuri National Job Fair 2024, held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), the Deputy President described job creation as Kenya&#8217;s most pressing economic priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">DP Kindiki cited the World Bank&#8217;s 2024 report, which places Kenya&#8217;s unemployment rate at 5.7 per cent, reiterating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412120173.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to tackling unemployment and creating sustainable economic opportunities for Kenyans. Speaking at the conclusion of the inaugural Jamhuri National Job Fair 2024, held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), the Deputy President described job creation as Kenya&#8217;s most pressing economic priority. DP Kindiki cited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":186428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6642,6643,4688,430,43933,257,254,7036,6276],"class_list":["post-186427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-creating","tag-jobs","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kindiki","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tells","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}