{"id":198255,"date":"2025-05-17T00:33:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-launches-plan-to-celebrate-kenyan-carrier-corps\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T00:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:33:33","slug":"kenya-launches-plan-to-celebrate-kenyan-carrier-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-launches-plan-to-celebrate-kenyan-carrier-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Launches Plan to Celebrate Kenyan Carrier Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched preparations for a landmark initiative to commemorate Africa&#8217;s pivotal, yet often overlooked, role in World War I.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The inaugural Inter-Ministerial Meeting, presided over by Principal Secretary Dr. Korir Sing&#8217;Oei, marks the beginning of a national journey to honour the Kenyan Carrier Corps who were part of over one million African porters, soldiers, and labourers whose sacrifice helped shape the course of global history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In Kenya, World War 1&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160324.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 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched preparations for a landmark initiative to commemorate Africa&#8217;s pivotal, yet often overlooked, role in World War I. The inaugural Inter-Ministerial Meeting, presided over by Principal Secretary Dr. Korir Sing&#8217;Oei, marks the beginning of a national journey to honour the Kenyan Carrier Corps who were part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198256,"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":[258,256,13652,8824,13450,4688,430,4524,5957,257,7586,254],"class_list":["post-198255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-carrier","tag-celebrate","tag-corps","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-launches","tag-news","tag-plan","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\/198255","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=198255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}