{"id":240941,"date":"2026-08-12T18:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-plan-afloat-to-introduce-kabbadi-in-school-youth-groups-after-latest-success-at-african-championships\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:34:33","slug":"kenya-plan-afloat-to-introduce-kabbadi-in-school-youth-groups-after-latest-success-at-african-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-plan-afloat-to-introduce-kabbadi-in-school-youth-groups-after-latest-success-at-african-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Plan Afloat to Introduce Kabbadi in School, Youth Groups After Latest Success At African Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">NAIROBI, Kenya, August 12, 2026 &#8211; Kenya Kabbadi Union (KKU) founding president Silas Jakakimba says they will intensify efforts to grow the sport around the country following the country&#8217;s triumph at the African Kabbadi Championships in Zanzibar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Jakakimba said the strategy will involve grounding the sport at the schools level as well as county-based youth groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">&#8220;As the captain of the back-end engine, I express, on behalf of the players and Kenyan youth involved in this sport, our profound&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120426.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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, Kenya, August 12, 2026 &#8211; Kenya Kabbadi Union (KKU) founding president Silas Jakakimba says they will intensify efforts to grow the sport around the country following the country&#8217;s triumph at the African Kabbadi Championships in Zanzibar. Jakakimba said the strategy will involve grounding the sport at the schools level as well as county-based youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[27143,258,256,4380,7540,9835,12016,55132,4688,430,5037,257,7586,4362,254,12051,6276],"class_list":["post-240941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-afloat","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-championships","tag-groups","tag-introduce","tag-kabbadi","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-latest","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-success","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240941","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=240941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}