{"id":202713,"date":"2025-07-18T03:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-count-down-starts-as-kenya-unveils-kings-baton-in-honour-of-2026-commonwealth-games\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T03:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:17:51","slug":"kenya-count-down-starts-as-kenya-unveils-kings-baton-in-honour-of-2026-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-count-down-starts-as-kenya-unveils-kings-baton-in-honour-of-2026-commonwealth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Count Down Starts As Kenya Unveils King&#8217;s Baton in Honour of 2026 Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>With just 372 days to go, Kenya has begun count down to the 2026 Commonwealth Games to be hosted in Glasgow, Scotland after the National Olympic Committee (NOC-K) on Wednesday unveiled the King&#8217;s Baton in Nairobi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The baton, is the official symbol carrying a message from His Majesty the King to all 74 nations and territories of the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Held in partnership with the British Council, the ceremony was hosted at the British High Commission in Nairobi and brought together 27&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170454.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 With just 372 days to go, Kenya has begun count down to the 2026 Commonwealth Games to be hosted in Glasgow, Scotland after the National Olympic Committee (NOC-K) on Wednesday unveiled the King&#8217;s Baton in Nairobi. The baton, is the official symbol carrying a message from His Majesty the King to all 74 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":202714,"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":[258,256,8371,6405,13858,6731,10998,4688,430,14500,257,254,8899,6777],"class_list":["post-202713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baton","tag-commonwealth","tag-count","tag-games","tag-honour","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kings","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starts","tag-unveils"],"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\/202713","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=202713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}