{"id":215262,"date":"2025-11-29T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-15000-youth-to-get-jobs-in-sh170bn-nairobi-nakuru-mau-summit-highway-project-ruto\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:47:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T19:47:16","slug":"kenya-15000-youth-to-get-jobs-in-sh170bn-nairobi-nakuru-mau-summit-highway-project-ruto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-15000-youth-to-get-jobs-in-sh170bn-nairobi-nakuru-mau-summit-highway-project-ruto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 15,000 Youth to Get Jobs in Sh170bn Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Highway Project &#8211; Ruto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto says 15,000 young Kenyans will benefit from new employment opportunities through the construction of the Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit and Nairobi-Maai Mahiu-Naivasha highways, describing the venture as a national turning point in infrastructure and economic development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking during the official project launch, the President said the highways &#8212; worth Sh170 billion &#8212; will not only improve transport efficiency but will also serve as a workforce empowerment engine&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280393.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 President William Ruto says 15,000 young Kenyans will benefit from new employment opportunities through the construction of the Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit and Nairobi-Maai Mahiu-Naivasha highways, describing the venture as a national turning point in infrastructure and economic development. Speaking during the official project launch, the President said the highways &#8212; worth Sh170 billion &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215263,"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":[258,256,9419,6643,4688,430,52989,257,6504,11238,52988,254,5757,6276],"class_list":["post-215262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-highway","tag-jobs","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobinakurumau","tag-news","tag-project","tag-ruto","tag-sh170bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-youth"],"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\/215262","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=215262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}