{"id":209373,"date":"2025-10-09T19:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-runda-residents-demonstrate-over-illegal-attempt-to-grab-public-land\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T19:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:53:26","slug":"kenya-runda-residents-demonstrate-over-illegal-attempt-to-grab-public-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-runda-residents-demonstrate-over-illegal-attempt-to-grab-public-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Runda Residents Demonstrate Over Illegal Attempt to Grab Public Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Demonstrations were Thursday staged in the leafy suburb of Runda, Nairobi County, as residents protested against what they termed an illegal attempt to seize public land reserved for a community park and children&#8217;s playground.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The peaceful march,drew residents who accused the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the Nairobi County Government of unlawfully approving the construction of residential apartments on the eight-acre public parcel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Carrying placards the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510090620.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 Demonstrations were Thursday staged in the leafy suburb of Runda, Nairobi County, as residents protested against what they termed an illegal attempt to seize public land reserved for a community park and children&#8217;s playground. The peaceful march,drew residents who accused the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) and the Nairobi County Government of unlawfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":209374,"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":[258,256,8083,6380,10821,6918,4688,430,6122,257,5751,4288,52536,254],"class_list":["post-209373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempt","tag-demonstrate","tag-grab","tag-illegal","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-land","tag-news","tag-public","tag-residents","tag-runda","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\/209373","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=209373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}