{"id":192961,"date":"2025-03-06T17:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kisumu-jua-kali-artisans-risk-losing-working-space-after-kenya-railways-took-back-land\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:54:35","slug":"kenya-kisumu-jua-kali-artisans-risk-losing-working-space-after-kenya-railways-took-back-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kisumu-jua-kali-artisans-risk-losing-working-space-after-kenya-railways-took-back-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kisumu Jua Kali Artisans Risk Losing Working Space After Kenya Railways Took Back Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Kisumu \u2014 <em>Over 4,000 jua kali artisans in Kisumu are staring at losing their workstation after Kenya Railways Corporation started leasing out the space.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The artisans&#8217; chairman, George Ngwono says they were hosted by the Corporation in a deal with the County Government of Kisumu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Ngwono says the deal, signed 5 years ago, was temporary as the county government promised to relocate them to a permanent workstation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The artisans gave out their initial workstation to pave the way for the construction&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503060429.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>Kisumu \u2014 Over 4,000 jua kali artisans in Kisumu are staring at losing their workstation after Kenya Railways Corporation started leasing out the space. The artisans&#8217; chairman, George Ngwono says they were hosted by the Corporation in a deal with the County Government of Kisumu. Ngwono says the deal, signed 5 years ago, was temporary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":192962,"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":[258,256,26662,50795,50796,4688,430,6521,6122,10575,257,12865,9590,254,5215,6249],"class_list":["post-192961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-artisans","tag-jua","tag-kali","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kisumu","tag-land","tag-losing","tag-news","tag-railways","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-space","tag-working"],"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\/192961","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=192961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}