{"id":174076,"date":"2024-06-08T00:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T22:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-uk-okays-namibias-proposed-visa-regime\/"},"modified":"2024-06-08T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T22:36:32","slug":"namibia-uk-okays-namibias-proposed-visa-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-uk-okays-namibias-proposed-visa-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: UK Okays Namibia&#8217;s Proposed Visa Regime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>The high commissioner of the United Kingdom (UK), Charles Moore, says the UK accepts the Namibian government&#8217;s proposal to impose a new visa regime on 31 countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The countries which would be slapped with a visa requirement do not reciprocate Namibia&#8217;s visa-on-arrival policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Moore says every nation, including Namibia and the UK, remains accountable for maintaining its borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;One of the principles of any sovereign government is to protect the country&#8217;s borders and to control who is coming in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406070106.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high commissioner of the United Kingdom (UK), Charles Moore, says the UK accepts the Namibian government&#8217;s proposal to impose a new visa regime on 31 countries. The countries which would be slapped with a visa requirement do not reciprocate Namibia&#8217;s visa-on-arrival policy. Moore says every nation, including Namibia and the UK, remains accountable for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,4706,724,9052,257,17174,8487,11801,254,1956],"class_list":["post-174076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-okays","tag-proposed","tag-regime","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}