{"id":2640,"date":"2019-05-24T12:51:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","slug":"heavy-rains-nearly-bring-mombasa-to-a-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/24\/heavy-rains-nearly-bring-mombasa-to-a-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Rains Nearly Bring Mombasa to A Halt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BY WINNIE OTIENO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Kenya Ports\nAuthority, the downpour has slowed down and even halted some operations at port\nfor the last two days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe rains have paralyzed ship\noperations prompting all ships at the Conventional Cargo area to close hatches.\nMost affected vessels are those carrying wheat, fertilizer, steel and coal. At\nthe Container Terminal currently only deliveries are working,\u201d KPA said on its\nFacebook page on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Standard Gauge Railway\nfreight services have also been severely affected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/counties\/mombasa\/Heavy-rains-nearly-bring-Mombasa-to-a-halt\/1954178-5129294-g67ok\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY WINNIE OTIENO According to the Kenya Ports Authority, the downpour has slowed down and even halted some operations at port for the last two days. \u201cThe rains have paralyzed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}