{"id":21183,"date":"2026-01-13T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21183\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:25:19","slug":"kenol-sagana-marua-dual-carriageway-93-complete-as-ruto-inspects-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21183\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua dual carriageway 93% complete as Ruto inspects project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com\/image\/2026\/01\/8da4f7fe-8e85-49e7-8179-14fb4586d2f4.jfif\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Highway project  \/ KeNHA<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto has inspected the 84-kilometre Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Road&#13;<br \/>\nProject, which the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) says is now 93 per&#13;<br \/>\ncent complete.<\/p>\n<p>The project forms part of the Great North Road&#13;<br \/>\ncorridor and is being upgraded into a dual carriageway intended to accommodate&#13;<br \/>\nhigh traffic volumes, improve regional connectivity and enhance road safety.<\/p>\n<p>According to KeNHA, the upgraded road has been engineered to withstand&#13;<br \/>\ndiverse weather conditions and deliver long-term durability.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.radioafrica.digital\/image\/2026\/01\/6577573f-04b0-4180-a548-f8d4a658b0a5.jfif\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Highway project  \/ KeNHA<\/p>\n<p>In addition to easing transport and logistics,&#13;<br \/>\nthe project features several social and economic amenities, including a trauma&#13;<br \/>\ncentre in Sagana, modern roadside markets, sanitary facilities, motorcycle&#13;<br \/>\nsheds, improved local access roads and tree-planting initiatives aimed at&#13;<br \/>\nsupporting environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Highway project is part of the Kenyan section of the&#13;<br \/>\nTrans-Africa Highway.<\/p>\n<p>The road passes through Nairobi and extends to Moyale, linking the capital&#13;<br \/>\nto the agriculturally and commercially rich Mount Kenya region, and onward to&#13;<br \/>\nEthiopia via the Moyale border.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.radioafrica.digital\/image\/2026\/01\/a8e1ff7f-1ab6-4af5-9b4d-4a3beef5413f.jfif\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto greets leaders when he supervised\u00a0 the\u00a0Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Highway project  \/ KeNHA<\/p>\n<p>Once complete, the project is expected to&#13;<br \/>\nenhance the movement of goods, services and people between counties in Central&#13;<br \/>\nand Eastern Kenya, improve connectivity with Nairobi, and strengthen regional&#13;<br \/>\ntrade links with Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The project involves dualling 84 kilometres of&#13;<br \/>\nthe Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua road, including the construction of grade-separated&#13;<br \/>\njunctions, road safety interventions and complementary social initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>The total cost of the project is EUR 257.68&#13;<br \/>\nmillion, co-financed by the African Development Bank Group (69 per cent), the&#13;<br \/>\nAfrica Growing Together Fund (12 per cent) and the Government of Kenya (19 per&#13;<br \/>\ncent).<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.radioafrica.digital\/image\/2026\/01\/03353dea-8f83-4426-9d6f-5f6459d3c496.jfif\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Highway project \/ KeNHA<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.radioafrica.digital\/image\/2026\/01\/f00e485c-2a05-4c3b-922d-d2df4375c601.jfif\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>President William Ruto greets leaders when he supervised\u00a0 the\u00a0Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Highway project \/ KeNHA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Highway project \/ KeNHA President William Ruto has inspected the 84-kilometre Kenol\u2013Sagana\u2013Marua Road&#13; Project, which the Kenya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[13181,13182,13183,13179,13178,80,100,101,99,13180],"class_list":{"0":"post-21183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-deliver-long-term-durability","9":"tag-dualling-84-kilometres-of-the-kenol-sagana-marua-road","10":"tag-great-north-road-corridor","11":"tag-kenha","12":"tag-kenol-sgana-marua","13":"tag-kenya","14":"tag-star-news-kenya","15":"tag-the-star","16":"tag-the-star-newspaper","17":"tag-withstand-diverse-weather-conditions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}