{"id":2948,"date":"2014-06-21T11:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T04:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2014-06-21T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T04:23:04","slug":"britain-remains-in-kenya-for-the-long-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/britain-remains-in-kenya-for-the-long-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain remains in Kenya for the long haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The modern-day relationship between the United Kingdom and Kenya is deep and abiding. We are bound together by strong ties that benefit both our countries.<\/p>\n<p>The figures tell their own story:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In excess of Sh155 billion a year in trade, the largest partner outside East Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Military cooperation worth Sh8.64 billion a year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Sh16.34 billion in aid investment to help the poorest and create jobs, a 50 per cent increase in recent years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Five of the largest taxpayers and the two largest private sector employers in Kenya are British companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The largest number of visitors from any country are from the UK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some in recent months have questioned that shared interest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenya News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/?articleID=2000125561\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 News 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>The modern-day relationship between the United Kingdom and Kenya is deep and abiding. We are bound together by strong ties that benefit both our countries. The figures tell their own story: In excess of Sh155 billion a year in trade, the largest partner outside East Africa Military cooperation worth Sh8.64 billion a year Sh16.34 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,1305,1303,4695,4688,430,1304,257,254,691],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid-investment-to-help-the-poorest","tag-bound-together-by-strong-ties","tag-east-africa","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-military-cooperation","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/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=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}