{"id":202569,"date":"2025-07-16T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-kenya-ready-to-host-chan-football-extravaganza\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T13:13:43","slug":"africa-kenya-ready-to-host-chan-football-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/africa-kenya-ready-to-host-chan-football-extravaganza\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Kenya Ready to Host CHAN Football Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em> \u2014 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has given the green light to Kenya&#8217;s preparations for next month&#8217;s CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN), urging Kenyans to turn out in large numbers to support the event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking during an inspection tour of Kasarani and Nyayo stadiums in Nairobi, where he was accompanied by Sports Cabinet Secretary Salim Mvurya, Murkomen expressed confidence that the country is fully ready to host the tournament finals next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Describing the event as a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507160295.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>\u2014 Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has given the green light to Kenya&#8217;s preparations for next month&#8217;s CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN), urging Kenyans to turn out in large numbers to support the event. Speaking during an inspection tour of Kasarani and Nyayo stadiums in Nairobi, where he was accompanied by Sports Cabinet Secretary Salim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202570,"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":[258,256,11500,29331,3299,6937,4688,430,257,8479,254],"class_list":["post-202569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chan","tag-extravaganza","tag-football","tag-host","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-ready","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\/202569","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=202569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}