{"id":199984,"date":"2025-06-12T01:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-construction-of-rironi-mau-summit-road-in-august\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T01:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T23:57:18","slug":"kenya-construction-of-rironi-mau-summit-road-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-construction-of-rironi-mau-summit-road-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Construction of Rironi-Mau Summit Road in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Nairobi \u2014 The long-overdue construction of the Rironi-Mau Summit Road will begin in August, President William Ruto has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The President said design work and other technicalities for the project are almost complete before he breaks ground on it in two months time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;We have agreed with the contractors to speed up the project and complete it by 2027. If not, they should have done a substantial portion of it by that time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He made the remarks when he hosted a delegation of leaders&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506110495.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 long-overdue construction of the Rironi-Mau Summit Road will begin in August, President William Ruto has announced. The President said design work and other technicalities for the project are almost complete before he breaks ground on it in two months time. &#8220;We have agreed with the contractors to speed up the project and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":199985,"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":[258,256,8060,7601,4688,430,257,51598,7414,254,5757],"class_list":["post-199984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-august","tag-construction","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-rironimau","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit"],"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\/199984","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=199984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}