{"id":203643,"date":"2025-07-31T03:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-safe-haven-to-battleground-how-protests-are-shaking-nyeris-business-community\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:42:03","slug":"kenya-safe-haven-to-battleground-how-protests-are-shaking-nyeris-business-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-safe-haven-to-battleground-how-protests-are-shaking-nyeris-business-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Safe Haven to Battleground &#8211; How Protests Are Shaking Nyeri&#8217;s Business Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nyeri \u2014 <em>For decades, Nyeri has been considered a safe haven for investors, attracting businesses from across the country with its reputation as the central region&#8217;s administrative and commercial hub.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The old saying, <em>&#8220;Nearer to Nyeri, nearer to the mountain,&#8221;<\/em> captured the confidence many entrepreneurs had in setting up shop in the largely agricultural and administrative town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">But this long-held perception is now under threat, following a wave of destructive demonstrations in recent weeks,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507300107.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>Nyeri \u2014 For decades, Nyeri has been considered a safe haven for investors, attracting businesses from across the country with its reputation as the central region&#8217;s administrative and commercial hub. The old saying, &#8220;Nearer to Nyeri, nearer to the mountain,&#8221; captured the confidence many entrepreneurs had in setting up shop in the largely agricultural and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":203644,"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":[4338,258,256,28311,7963,6804,4688,430,257,49464,5253,6803,51988,254],"class_list":["post-203643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battleground","tag-community","tag-haven","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-nyeris","tag-protests","tag-safe","tag-shaking","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\/203643","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=203643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}