{"id":215311,"date":"2025-11-30T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-declares-new-era-as-kenya-launches-sh170bn-nairobi-nakuru-mau-summit-highway\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T09:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T07:48:21","slug":"kenya-ruto-declares-new-era-as-kenya-launches-sh170bn-nairobi-nakuru-mau-summit-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-declares-new-era-as-kenya-launches-sh170bn-nairobi-nakuru-mau-summit-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Declares &#8216;New Era&#8217; As Kenya Launches Sh170bn Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has described the launch of the Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit and Nairobi-Maai Mahiu-Naivasha highways as the dawn of a new era for Kenya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">President Ruto stated that the positioning of the massive Sh170 billion project was both an economic turning point and a governance declaration that the country will no longer accept slow growth or outdated financing choices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking at the event, the President said the project marked the end of decades of infrastructural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280385.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 has described the launch of the Nairobi-Nakuru-Mau Summit and Nairobi-Maai Mahiu-Naivasha highways as the dawn of a new era for Kenya. President Ruto stated that the positioning of the massive Sh170 billion project was both an economic turning point and a governance declaration that the country will no longer accept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215312,"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":[258,256,7030,11475,9419,4688,430,5957,52989,257,11238,52988,254,5757],"class_list":["post-215311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-era","tag-highway","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-launches","tag-nairobinakurumau","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-sh170bn","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit"],"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\/215311","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=215311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}