{"id":193749,"date":"2025-03-17T06:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T04:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-orders-halt-to-demolitions-on-public-land-until-those-affected-are-provided-with-alternative-housing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T06:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T04:56:31","slug":"kenya-ruto-orders-halt-to-demolitions-on-public-land-until-those-affected-are-provided-with-alternative-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-orders-halt-to-demolitions-on-public-land-until-those-affected-are-provided-with-alternative-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Orders Halt to Demolitions On Public Land Until Those Affected Are Provided With Alternative Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has ordered a halt to evictions on public land until affected families are provided with alternative housing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Speaking during his last tour of Nairobi on Friday, the head of state emphasized the need for lawful and humane approaches to land disputes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">&#8220;There are some Kenyans telling me that there are land problems here,&#8221; he remarked. &#8220;I am announcing that the past practices of arbitrary evictions will not continue. Even if a citizen has settled where they are not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140390.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>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has ordered a halt to evictions on public land until affected families are provided with alternative housing. Speaking during his last tour of Nairobi on Friday, the head of state emphasized the need for lawful and humane approaches to land disputes. &#8220;There are some Kenyans telling me that there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[7104,258,256,13222,21460,7520,8522,4688,430,6122,257,6186,5751,11238,254],"class_list":["post-193749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-affected","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alternative","tag-demolitions","tag-halt","tag-housing","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-land","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-public","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193749","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=193749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}