{"id":190395,"date":"2025-02-03T05:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-mbumba-hosts-eswatini-minister-about-au-commissioner-bid\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T05:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T03:02:53","slug":"namibia-president-mbumba-hosts-eswatini-minister-about-au-commissioner-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-president-mbumba-hosts-eswatini-minister-about-au-commissioner-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: President Mbumba Hosts Eswatini Minister About AU Commissioner Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>President Nangolo Mbumba welcomed Eswatini&#8217;s labour minister at State House on Tuesday to discuss the country&#8217;s bid for a position at the African Union (AU).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Eswatini&#8217;s minister of labour and social security, Phila Buthelezi, conveyed greetings from King Mswati III, who seeks Namibia&#8217;s support for Eswatini&#8217;s candidate for the position of AU commissioner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Eswatini has nominated former agriculture minister Moses Vilakati for the position of commissioner for agriculture, rural development, blue&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501300638.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>President Nangolo Mbumba welcomed Eswatini&#8217;s labour minister at State House on Tuesday to discuss the country&#8217;s bid for a position at the African Union (AU). Eswatini&#8217;s minister of labour and social security, Phila Buthelezi, conveyed greetings from King Mswati III, who seeks Namibia&#8217;s support for Eswatini&#8217;s candidate for the position of AU commissioner. Eswatini has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190396,"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":[258,256,10798,6350,21368,6574,23037,5941,4706,724,257,2450,254],"class_list":["post-190395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-commissioner","tag-eswatini","tag-hosts","tag-mbumba","tag-minister","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\/190395","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=190395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}