{"id":177493,"date":"2024-07-29T14:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-you-cant-wake-up-today-and-tell-africans-to-stop-cooking-with-fire\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T12:31:56","slug":"namibia-you-cant-wake-up-today-and-tell-africans-to-stop-cooking-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-you-cant-wake-up-today-and-tell-africans-to-stop-cooking-with-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: &#8216;You Can&#8217;t Wake Up Today and Tell Africans to Stop Cooking With Fire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">African Arguments spoke to Namibia&#8217;s Industrialisation and Trade Minister about industrial strategy, unjust trade, and green hydrogen controversies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><strong>Namibia exports mostly unprocessed goods &#8211; like minerals, beef, and fish &#8211; and imports almost all its consumer goods. How is your ministry attempting to change this imbalance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">We are now looking at interventions to make sure much of what we process is grown locally, has value-added locally, and is distributed locally. For example, we have a school&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407260002.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>African Arguments spoke to Namibia&#8217;s Industrialisation and Trade Minister about industrial strategy, unjust trade, and green hydrogen controversies. Namibia exports mostly unprocessed goods &#8211; like minerals, beef, and fish &#8211; and imports almost all its consumer goods. How is your ministry attempting to change this imbalance? We are now looking at interventions to make sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581466:8a27079fb0e70d465f1d8ef69b204ec5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,6752,13343,6600,4706,724,257,254,8652,6637,11999],"class_list":["post-177493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africans","tag-cooking","tag-fire","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-today","tag-wake"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00581466:8a27079fb0e70d465f1d8ef69b204ec5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177493","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=177493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}