{"id":38567,"date":"2026-07-02T07:46:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=38567"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T05:46:32","slug":"kenya-school-girls-face-murder-charges","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenya-school-girls-face-murder-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya school girls face murder charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A Kenyan court has formally charged eight school girls with murder for the deaths of 16 of their fellow learners.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This after a dormitory fire broke out at Utumishi Girls&#8217; Academy Senior School in Kenya&#8217;s Rift Valley in late May.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The eight defendants appeared on Wednesday before Nairobi&#8217;s Kibera High Court and all pleaded not guilty to the charge.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The blaze renewed scrutiny of safety in Kenyan boarding schools and recurring student unrest in the education system.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16035,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-38567","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Kenyan court has formally charged eight school girls","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38568,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/38567\/revisions\/38568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=38567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}