{"id":3685,"date":"2012-10-24T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T09:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenya-lobbying-to-host-africa-cup-2016\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T08:58:43","slug":"kenya-lobbying-to-host-africa-cup-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenya-lobbying-to-host-africa-cup-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Lobbying to Host Africa Cup 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kenya will November start lobbying neighbours Uganda and Tanzania for a joint bid to host the 2016 Africa Cup of Nations.}}<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Youth and Sports Ababu Namwamba revealed that negotiations for the joint bid will start during next month\u2019s Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) championships in Kampala Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring next month\u2019s Cecafa championships, I intend to meet my two counterparts from Uganda and Tanzania with a view of placing our bids to jointly host the 2016 Africa Cup of Nations,\u201d said Mr Namwamba.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister regretted that failure to invest in sporting facilities had locked Kenya from making bids to hosts major continental championships since the fourth editions of 1987 All Africa games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Kenya will November start lobbying neighbours Uganda and Tanzania for a joint bid to host the 2016 Africa Cup of Nations.}} Minister for Youth and Sports Ababu Namwamba revealed that negotiations for the joint bid will start during next month\u2019s Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (Cecafa) championships in Kampala Uganda. \u201cDuring next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}