{
  "id": 10631804,
  "title": "Court temporarily halts Dangote refinery construction in Lamu on occupied portions of suit land",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/court-temporarily-halts-dangote-refinery-construction-in-lamu-on",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T05:40:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "People Daily Kenya",
    "slug": "people-daily-kenya",
    "url": "https://peopledaily.digital/news/court-temporarily-halts-dangote-refinery-construction-in-lamu-on-occupied-portions-of-suit-land"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Malindi Environment and Land Court has temporarily halted the construction of a multibillion-dollar Dangote refinery at Lamu County pending the hearing and determination of the application filed by Salim Tima Swale and 132 others as urgent. However, the court declined to grant the petitioners an order they sought restraining the Office of the President, […]",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "People Daily Kenya",
        "title": "MP Wandeto urges Ruto to halt Lamu refinery groundbreaking over court order",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/mp-wandeto-urges-ruto-to-halt-lamu-refinery-groundbreaking-over-court",
        "published": "2026-09-29T05:21:51.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Capital FM Kenya",
        "title": "Ruto warns against attempts to derail Sh2trn Dangote refinery",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/ruto-warns-against-attempts-to-derail-sh2trn-dangote-refinery",
        "published": "2026-09-29T10:22:58.000Z"
      },
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        "outlet": "AllAfrica",
        "title": "Kenya: Ruto Warns Against Attempts to Derail Dangote Refinery",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/kenya-ruto-warns-against-attempts-to-derail-dangote-refinery",
        "published": "2026-09-29T11:00:49.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Punch Nigeria",
        "title": "Kenyan court halts Dangote refinery work as firm says groundbreaking holds",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/kenyan-court-halts-dangote-refinery-work-as-firm-says-groundbreaking",
        "published": "2026-09-29T11:12:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}