{"id":195722,"date":"2025-04-09T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-central-mombasa-restricted-as-kdf-readies-for-controlled-demolition\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:12:38","slug":"kenya-central-mombasa-restricted-as-kdf-readies-for-controlled-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-central-mombasa-restricted-as-kdf-readies-for-controlled-demolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Central Mombasa Restricted As KDF Readies for Controlled Demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Mombasa \u2014 <em>Central Mombasa is gearing for a planned demolition of a 9-storey building declared structuraly unsound<\/em> <em>after its floor columns sunk by three metres in a fault blamed on an unpproved drilling of a borehole.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Officials worked round the clock on Tuesday to evacuate the Coast General Teaching an Refferal Hospital located in close proximity to the building on Plot No. XLVI\/195\/MI off Abdel Nasser Road ahead on Wednesday&#8217;s demolition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;This is a life-saving operation. We cannot and will not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504090046.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>Mombasa \u2014 Central Mombasa is gearing for a planned demolition of a 9-storey building declared structuraly unsound after its floor columns sunk by three metres in a fault blamed on an unpproved drilling of a borehole. Officials worked round the clock on Tuesday to evacuate the Coast General Teaching an Refferal Hospital located in close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":195723,"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":[258,256,5934,28690,17068,610,4688,430,495,257,15361,14921,254],"class_list":["post-195722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-controlled","tag-demolition","tag-kdf","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mombasa","tag-news","tag-readies","tag-restricted","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\/195722","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=195722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}