{"id":187740,"date":"2025-01-02T02:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T00:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-marks-historic-milestone-with-election-of-first-female-president-mbumba\/"},"modified":"2025-01-02T02:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T00:08:43","slug":"namibia-marks-historic-milestone-with-election-of-first-female-president-mbumba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-marks-historic-milestone-with-election-of-first-female-president-mbumba\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Marks Historic Milestone With Election of First Female President &#8211; Mbumba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Namibia opened a new chapter in pursuit of prosperity with the election of its first female president, says president Nangolo Mbumba.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking during his new year&#8217;s address on Tuesday, Mbumba said this is a pivotal step in the country&#8217;s pursuit of gender inclusion and national prosperity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">&#8220;For the first time in the history of our nation, the Namibian people have elected a woman to be the president. This milestone underscores our national efforts in gender inclusion and opens a new chapter in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501010234.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>Namibia opened a new chapter in pursuit of prosperity with the election of its first female president, says president Nangolo Mbumba. Speaking during his new year&#8217;s address on Tuesday, Mbumba said this is a pivotal step in the country&#8217;s pursuit of gender inclusion and national prosperity. &#8220;For the first time in the history of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":187741,"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":[258,256,3119,4353,13203,9877,23037,12070,4706,724,257,2450,254],"class_list":["post-187740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-election","tag-female","tag-historic","tag-marks","tag-mbumba","tag-milestone","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/187740","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=187740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}