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Windhoek \u2014 Climate shocks and emergencies are no longer distant concerns – they are now a reality. The rains in Namibia might provide a brief respite, but the underlying crisis remains.<\/p>\n
The effects of climate change are exacerbating droughts and threatening livelihoods, and\u00a0this persistent challenge requires nothing short of a “Marshall Plan” (a US program that provided economic aid to Western Europe after World War II) for drought resilience,\u00a0not just in Namibia but throughout Southern…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Windhoek \u2014 Climate shocks and emergencies are no longer distant concerns – they are now a reality. The rains in Namibia might provide a brief respite, but the underlying crisis remains. The effects of climate change are exacerbating droughts and threatening livelihoods, and\u00a0this persistent challenge requires nothing short of a “Marshall Plan” (a US program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":185004,"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\/00511974:6e43e7fe6d788852c084c700ed9491d7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,25102,4787,4706,724,257,8111,16100,254,7153],"class_list":["post-185003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dire","tag-drought","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-seeks","tag-solutions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00511974:6e43e7fe6d788852c084c700ed9491d7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185003","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=185003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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