{"id":235653,"date":"2026-06-08T04:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-the-maandamano-subplot-why-fifth-edition-of-nairobi-city-marathon-sits-on-knifes-edge\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T04:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:06:54","slug":"kenya-the-maandamano-subplot-why-fifth-edition-of-nairobi-city-marathon-sits-on-knifes-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-the-maandamano-subplot-why-fifth-edition-of-nairobi-city-marathon-sits-on-knifes-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: The Maandamano Subplot &#8211; Why Fifth Edition of Nairobi City Marathon Sits On Knife&#8217;s Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>Even as the clock ticks to the fifth edition of the Nairobi City Marathon, organisers admit that Sunday&#8217;s event is rich fodder for unannounced protests by persons disgruntled with various issues presently affecting the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">National Police Service&#8217;s (NPS) Benjamin Bowen, who is the head of operations Nairobi region, admits protests are a possibility considering the various challenges that have been experienced in recent times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">&#8220;We have the public demonstrations, picketing at times, grievances&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050296.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>Even as the clock ticks to the fifth edition of the Nairobi City Marathon, organisers admit that Sunday&#8217;s event is rich fodder for unannounced protests by persons disgruntled with various issues presently affecting the country. National Police Service&#8217;s (NPS) Benjamin Bowen, who is the head of operations Nairobi region, admits protests are a possibility considering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":235654,"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":[258,256,6603,7126,11246,4688,430,54367,54564,5150,259,257,6598,254,54565],"class_list":["post-235653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-city","tag-edge","tag-edition","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-knifes","tag-maandamano","tag-marathon","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-sits","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subplot"],"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\/235653","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=235653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}