{"id":236801,"date":"2026-06-19T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/zimbabwe-kenya-denies-awarding-1-2-billion-airport-expansion-contract-to-controversial-businessman-chivayo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:33:41","slug":"zimbabwe-kenya-denies-awarding-1-2-billion-airport-expansion-contract-to-controversial-businessman-chivayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/zimbabwe-kenya-denies-awarding-1-2-billion-airport-expansion-contract-to-controversial-businessman-chivayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Kenya Denies Awarding $1.2-Billion Airport Expansion Contract to Controversial Businessman Chivayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Kenya has denied that a company linked to controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo has won a multi-billion-US-dollar contract to expand the country&#8217;s main airport, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), in the capital Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">This follows earlier reports that Chivayo&#8217;s company, IMC Construction, was part of a consortium that had won a $2.9-billion (375 billion Kenyan shillings) tender to expand the busy airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Kenya says that JKIA&#8217;s expansion will not cost the reported 375&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190017.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>Kenya has denied that a company linked to controversial Zimbabwean businessman Wicknell Chivayo has won a multi-billion-US-dollar contract to expand the country&#8217;s main airport, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), in the capital Nairobi. This follows earlier reports that Chivayo&#8217;s company, IMC Construction, was part of a consortium that had won a $2.9-billion (375 billion Kenyan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":236802,"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":[54654,258,256,2819,32355,18594,18483,7062,11087,7651,5779,4688,430,257,254,4686],"class_list":["post-236801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-1-2billion","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-awarding","tag-businessman","tag-chivayo","tag-contract","tag-controversial","tag-denies","tag-expansion","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe"],"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\/236801","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=236801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}