{"id":222673,"date":"2026-02-03T11:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-njoro-girls-high-school-shut-indefinitely-following-students-death\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:27:11","slug":"kenya-njoro-girls-high-school-shut-indefinitely-following-students-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-njoro-girls-high-school-shut-indefinitely-following-students-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Njoro Girls&#8217; High School Shut Indefinitely Following Student&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nakuru \u2014 Njoro Girls&#8217; High School in Nakuru County has been closed indefinitely on after unrest erupted following the death of a Form Four student.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The student, identified as 18-year-old Brenda Akinyi, died while receiving treatment at Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital after reportedly falling ill at school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The cause of her death has not yet been established, with police saying an autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday, February 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030147.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>Nakuru \u2014 Njoro Girls&#8217; High School in Nakuru County has been closed indefinitely on after unrest erupted following the death of a Form Four student. The student, identified as 18-year-old Brenda Akinyi, died while receiving treatment at Nakuru Teaching and Referral Hospital after reportedly falling ill at school. The cause of her death has not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":222674,"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":[258,256,6974,7010,6184,5225,4688,430,257,34381,4362,5161,254,6695],"class_list":["post-222673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-death","tag-girls","tag-high","tag-indefinitely","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-njoro","tag-school","tag-shut","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students"],"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\/222673","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=222673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}