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To combat water scarcity and food insecurity exacerbated by recurrent droughts, 11 earth dams were recently excavated across the Oshana region.<\/em><\/p>\n This was completed by the Oshana Regional Council, with funding from the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, Oshana’s chief regional officer, Theopolina Hamutumwa, announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n She said the earth dams were completed in May last year.<\/p>\n “The Oshana region is currently dealing with drought affecting crops and drinking water for people and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> To combat water scarcity and food insecurity exacerbated by recurrent droughts, 11 earth dams were recently excavated across the Oshana region. This was completed by the Oshana Regional Council, with funding from the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, Oshana’s chief regional officer, Theopolina Hamutumwa, announced on Tuesday. She said the earth dams were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":189493,"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":[258,256,7037,22209,4706,724,257,10604,254,14967,6722],"class_list":["post-189492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dams","tag-earth","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-oshana","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tackles","tag-water"],"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\/189492","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=189492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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