{"id":54876,"date":"2026-01-30T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/54876\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:52:08","slug":"us-starts-70m-military-base-expansion-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/54876\/","title":{"rendered":"US Starts $70M Military Base Expansion in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States on Jan. 29 officially broke ground on a major expansion of the Manda Bay military airstrip, deepening its security ties with Kenya in a strategically vital region.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade will allow larger aircraft to operate from the base, which the two governments say will boost counter-terrorism readiness and strengthen joint maritime security along the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The $70 million expansion signals a deepening of U.S.-Kenya defense\u00a0cooperation as both countries work to secure key maritime routes and address shared security challenges across the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States on Jan. 29 officially broke ground on a major expansion of the Manda Bay military&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[80],"class_list":{"0":"post-54876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kenya","8":"tag-kenya"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54876","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=54876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}