{"id":202081,"date":"2025-07-10T02:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kcaa-okays-kenyas-first-drone-corridor-at-konza-technopolis\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T02:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T00:59:57","slug":"kenya-kcaa-okays-kenyas-first-drone-corridor-at-konza-technopolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-kcaa-okays-kenyas-first-drone-corridor-at-konza-technopolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: KCAA Okays Kenya&#8217;s First Drone Corridor At Konza Technopolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has approved the Konza National Drone Corridor to boost the country&#8217;s aviation and technology landscape.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Initiated by the Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA), the corridor is the first controlled airspace in Kenya dedicated specifically to Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">John Paul Okwiri, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Konza Technopolis, said this milestone is a major leap forward in Kenya&#8217;s efforts to build&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090512.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 Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has approved the Konza National Drone Corridor to boost the country&#8217;s aviation and technology landscape. Initiated by the Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA), the corridor is the first controlled airspace in Kenya dedicated specifically to Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations. John Paul Okwiri, Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00231166:0a46ab37bf2987b53def4ad64dfcc048:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,12298,23813,37679,4688,430,6097,37838,257,17174,254,51829],"class_list":["post-202081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corridor","tag-drone","tag-kcaa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-konza","tag-news","tag-okays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-technopolis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00231166:0a46ab37bf2987b53def4ad64dfcc048:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202081","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=202081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}