{"id":32133,"date":"2023-10-11T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T05:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/?p=32133"},"modified":"2025-07-12T08:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T08:04:50","slug":"nakuru-county-eyes-hosting-afcon-games-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/nakuru-county-eyes-hosting-afcon-games-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Nakuru County Eyes Hosting AFCON Games in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nakuru County will be pitching to host some of the AFCON 2027 Games poised to take place in 2027 co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a progress inspection tour at Afraha Stadium, Governor Susan Kihika revealed that her administration is doing everything possible to ensure that the stadium will have all the requisite facilities by then.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfraha Stadium will be well done by then. Complete and well upgraded to international standards,\u201d said the Governor.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@martin_gichinga\/video\/7288388816795127045\" data-video-id=\"7288388816795127045\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@martin_gichinga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@martin_gichinga?refer=embed\">@martin_gichinga<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Nakuru bids to host AFCON games * We have all the facilities &#8211; Governor Susan Kihika<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Martin Gichinga\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7288388849272900357?refer=embed\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Martin Gichinga<\/a> <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The refurbishment of the Stadium is at an advanced stage and is currently at 90% completion. Once phase one of the stadium is complete in the next two months, it will have the capacity to hold up to 20,000 fans.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Kihika indicated that Nakuru had a lot to offer for the players and fans from luxury to budget hotels, beautiful sites to explore, pleasant weather, and friendly people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hotels have enough capacity to hold the teams and the fans. It is also a vibrant city with something for everyone to enjoy even as they enjoy the games,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also added that Nakuru County is focused on growing its sporting talent and building another international stadium in Naivasha.<\/p>\n<p>The 2027 Africa Cup of Nations will be jointly hosted by Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The Kenya-Uganda-Tanzania bid then got the nod from the CAF executive committee, taking the biennial tournament back to East Africa for the first time since Ethiopia staged the 1976 finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nakuru County will be pitching to host some of the AFCON 2027 Games poised to take place in 2027 co-hosted by Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Speaking during a progress inspection tour at Afraha Stadium, Governor Susan Kihika revealed that her administration is doing everything possible to ensure that the stadium will have all the requisite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[142,143],"class_list":["post-32133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nakuru-news","tag-afcon-2027","tag-afraha-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38871,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32133\/revisions\/38871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famousnakuru.co.ke\/newsite2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}