{"id":2895,"date":"2019-06-03T12:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T12:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2895"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"kenya-bans-fishing-close-to-somalia-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/03\/kenya-bans-fishing-close-to-somalia-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Bans Fishing Close To Somalia Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By KALUME KAZUNGU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya has banned fishing\nactivities off the Coast near the Somalia border over security concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lamu County Commissioner Joseph\nKanyiri says all fishermen are prohibited from carrying out their activities in\nRas Kamboni and any other areas past Kiunga Town, all of which lie close to the\nKenya-Somalia border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an exclusive interview with\nthe&nbsp;<em>Nation<\/em>&nbsp;in Lamu on Monday, Mr. Kanyiri reiterated that the ban on\nthe fisher folk is due to security reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county security boss said\nareas close to the border have had incidents of trafficking in contraband\ngoods, drugs and people hence the need for citizens to keep off. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Kenya-bans-fishing-near-Somalia-border\/4552908-5142670-u5vr0u\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KALUME KAZUNGU Kenya has banned fishing activities off the Coast near the Somalia border over security concerns. Lamu County Commissioner Joseph Kanyiri says all fishermen are prohibited from carrying&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2896,"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-2895","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\/2895","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=2895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}