{"id":20603,"date":"2026-04-23T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=20603"},"modified":"2026-04-23T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:32:57","slug":"east-african-nations-discussing-regional-refinery-project-kenya-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/20603\/east-african-nations-discussing-regional-refinery-project-kenya-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"East African nations discussing regional refinery project, Kenya president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<p>Kenya is holding \u200bdiscussions with neighbouring \u200cTanzania and other East African countries \u200bon plans \u200bto build a new \u2060oil refinery \u200bat the Tanzanian \u200bport of Tanga on the Indian Ocean, \u200bKenyan President \u200bWilliam Ruto said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We \u200care \u2060going to have a joint refinery in \u200bTanga \u200bto \u2060benefit all of us,&#8221; Ruto \u200btold a \u200bconference \u2060on infrastructure financing in Nairobi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya is holding \u200bdiscussions with neighbouring \u200cTanzania and other East African countries \u200bon plans \u200bto build a new \u2060oil refinery \u200bat the Tanzanian \u200bport of Tanga on the Indian Ocean, \u200bKenyan President \u200bWilliam Ruto said on Thursday. &#8220;We \u200care \u2060going to have a joint refinery in \u200bTanga \u200bto \u2060benefit all of us,&#8221; Ruto \u200btold a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2831,2362],"tags":[111,3103,131],"class_list":["post-20603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-energy","category-featured","tag-kenya","tag-tanga","tag-tanzania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20605,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20603\/revisions\/20605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}