{"id":182168,"date":"2024-10-09T05:27:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T03:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-elephants-chase-zambezi-pupils-on-their-way-to-school\/"},"modified":"2024-10-09T05:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T03:27:07","slug":"namibia-elephants-chase-zambezi-pupils-on-their-way-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-elephants-chase-zambezi-pupils-on-their-way-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Elephants Chase Zambezi Pupils On Their Way to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Villagers of the Sifanu area in the Zambezi region are concerned over their children&#8217;s safety as elephants often chase them on their way to schools several kilometres away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">About 150 pre-primary and primary school children commute to various schools every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">These include Kongola Combined School, which is situated about five kilometres from the village, and Kayuwo Primary School, which is about eight kilometers away from the school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Sifanu area is situated between the Mayuni and Kwando&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410080538.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>Villagers of the Sifanu area in the Zambezi region are concerned over their children&#8217;s safety as elephants often chase them on their way to schools several kilometres away. About 150 pre-primary and primary school children commute to various schools every day. These include Kongola Combined School, which is situated about five kilometres from the village, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182169,"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":[258,256,7842,3496,4706,724,257,17917,4362,254,7392],"class_list":["post-182168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chase","tag-elephants","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pupils","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambezi"],"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\/182168","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=182168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}