{"id":654,"date":"2014-11-14T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/14\/ethiopia-kenya-ethiopia-highway-to-be\/"},"modified":"2016-05-03T09:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T09:40:53","slug":"ethiopia-kenya-ethiopia-highway-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/14\/ethiopia-kenya-ethiopia-highway-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"ETHIOPIA: Kenya &#8211; Ethiopia Highway to Be Ready Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: justify;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/road.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/road.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\nThe tarmacking of the main road<br \/>\nlinking Kenya with Ethiopia is expected to be completed by the end of next<br \/>\nyear, according to the Governor of Kenya&#8217;s Marsabit County. Governor Ukur<br \/>\nYattani said the 505-kilometre Isiolo-Marsabit-Moyale road was now 60% complete<br \/>\nand that work was continuing well.<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\nHe said &#8220;Construction is<br \/>\nongoing, and by the end of next year, we will have connected Addis Ababa to<br \/>\nNairobi by a tarmac road. This, he added, will change the economy of this area.<br \/>\nThe road is expected to have cost over US$500 million when finished and is<br \/>\nbeing funded by the African Development Bank, the European Union and the Kenya<br \/>\nGovernment. <\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\nThe Governor said the road would<br \/>\nease travel to Nairobi and will also mean the establishment of petrol stations,<br \/>\ntourist lodges, banks and other institutions. The road, said Governor Yattani,<br \/>\nwill be &#8220;a game changer.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Source: allAfrica.com<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tarmacking of the main road linking Kenya with Ethiopia is expected to be completed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}