{"id":182976,"date":"2024-10-21T05:52:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T03:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n5b-needed-annually-for-roads-upkeep-maintenance-strategy-required-for-all-roads\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T03:52:49","slug":"namibia-n5b-needed-annually-for-roads-upkeep-maintenance-strategy-required-for-all-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-n5b-needed-annually-for-roads-upkeep-maintenance-strategy-required-for-all-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: N$5b Needed Annually for Roads Upkeep&#8230;Maintenance Strategy Required for All Roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Walvis Bay \u2014 Namibia requires about N$5 billion annually to effectively maintain its national roads network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Road Fund Administration (RFA) CEO Ali Ipinge stated on Thursday that roads maintenance is quite a challenge due to limited available funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">He was speaking in Walvis Bay last<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">week, where the RFA injected over N$250 million to rehabilitate key economic roads on which cargo is transported to and from Namport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The RFA currently generates around N$3.5 billion annually, which results in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410160607.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>Walvis Bay \u2014 Namibia requires about N$5 billion annually to effectively maintain its national roads network. Road Fund Administration (RFA) CEO Ali Ipinge stated on Thursday that roads maintenance is quite a challenge due to limited available funding. He was speaking in Walvis Bay last week, where the RFA injected over N$250 million to rehabilitate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":182977,"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":[258,256,17933,49801,4706,724,6424,257,18646,9013,254,6986,49802],"class_list":["post-182976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-annually","tag-n5b","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-required","tag-roads","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-upkeep-maintenance"],"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\/182976","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=182976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}