{"id":180935,"date":"2024-09-20T05:22:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/namibia-zambia-to-exchange-21-prisoners\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T05:22:19","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T03:22:19","slug":"namibia-zambia-to-exchange-21-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/namibia-zambia-to-exchange-21-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia, Zambia to Exchange 21 Prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Namibia and Zambia have officially exchanged 21 sentenced inmates at the Katima Mulilo Border Post in a move to enhance prisoner rehabilitation and reintegration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The exchange follows resolutions made during the 25th session of the Namibia-Zambia Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security, held at Swakopmund from 29 July to 2 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">According to a media statement released on Wednesday by Namibia Correctional Service commissioner general Raphael Hamunyela, the agreement enables inmates to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409190624.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia and Zambia have officially exchanged 21 sentenced inmates at the Katima Mulilo Border Post in a move to enhance prisoner rehabilitation and reintegration. The exchange follows resolutions made during the 25th session of the Namibia-Zambia Joint Permanent Commission on Defence and Security, held at Swakopmund from 29 July to 2 August. According to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":180936,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,9607,4706,257,6444,254,4709,881],"class_list":["post-180935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-exchange","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-prisoners","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/180935","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=180935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}