{"id":174779,"date":"2024-06-19T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-9000-teenage-pregnancies-since-2020\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T23:00:07","slug":"namibia-over-9000-teenage-pregnancies-since-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-over-9000-teenage-pregnancies-since-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Over 9,000 Teenage Pregnancies Since 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gender equality minister Doreen Sioka has called on all stakeholders to join hands in addressing teenage pregnancy, following the alarming statistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">She made the call on Friday during the commemoration and celebration of the Day of the African Child, held at Nghifikwa Ndailikana Primary School in Okongo constituency in the Ohangwena region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Addressing the gathering, Sioka said in the Ohangwena region alone, over 9000 pregnancies among girls under the age of 19 have been reported between January&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406180469.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>Gender equality minister Doreen Sioka has called on all stakeholders to join hands in addressing teenage pregnancy, following the alarming statistics. She made the call on Friday during the commemoration and celebration of the Day of the African Child, held at Nghifikwa Ndailikana Primary School in Okongo constituency in the Ohangwena region. Addressing the gathering, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174780,"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":[258,256,4706,724,257,16201,254,11605],"class_list":["post-174779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pregnancies","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teenage"],"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\/174779","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=174779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}