{"id":190942,"date":"2025-02-09T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-dienda-questions-namibias-decision-not-to-send-troops-to-drc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:50:38","slug":"namibia-dienda-questions-namibias-decision-not-to-send-troops-to-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-dienda-questions-namibias-decision-not-to-send-troops-to-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Dienda Questions Namibia&#8217;s Decision Not to Send Troops to DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Popular Democratic Movement member of parliament Elma Dienda is questioning the government&#8217;s decision not to send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Defence minister Frans Kapofi this week said that Namibia took a sovereign decision to not send soldiers to the DRC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Sending soldiers to the DRC is not the solution but a dialogue is ideal, Kapofi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Dienda wants to know the reasons behind the decision, especially given the escalating conflict and regional instability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">She also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502060059.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>Popular Democratic Movement member of parliament Elma Dienda is questioning the government&#8217;s decision not to send troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Defence minister Frans Kapofi this week said that Namibia took a sovereign decision to not send soldiers to the DRC. Sending soldiers to the DRC is not the solution but a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":190943,"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":[258,256,7430,50601,279,4706,724,9052,257,5152,5213,254,8515],"class_list":["post-190942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decision","tag-dienda","tag-drc","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-questions","tag-send","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops"],"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\/190942","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=190942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}