<\/p>\n
Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has hailed Nairobi’s selection to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, saying the country is investing in sports infrastructure as it prepares to stage the global competition.<\/p>\n
Ruto welcomed the decision by the World Athletics Council, saying Kenya’s successful bid was a major achievement for the country and the African continent.<\/p>\n
He noted that Nairobi will become the first African city to host the senior World Athletics Championships, describing the award…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has hailed Nairobi’s selection to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, saying the country is investing in sports infrastructure as it prepares to stage the global competition. Ruto welcomed the decision by the World Athletics Council, saying Kenya’s successful bid was a major achievement for the country and the African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":244463,"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":[258,256,7977,7601,6952,4688,430,17607,257,11238,254,20510,6660,5093],"class_list":["post-244462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-athletics","tag-construction","tag-hails","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-nairobis","tag-news","tag-ruto","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadiums","tag-win","tag-world"],"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\/244462","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=244462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n
South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"