{"id":191422,"date":"2025-02-14T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T16:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-putin-extends-condolences-to-namibians-over-nujomas-death\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T16:02:58","slug":"namibia-putin-extends-condolences-to-namibians-over-nujomas-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-putin-extends-condolences-to-namibians-over-nujomas-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Putin Extends Condolences to Namibians Over Nujoma&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Russian president Vladimir Putin has extended his condolences to the Namibian nation over the death of founding president Sam Nujoma.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Following Nujoma&#8217;s death, various world leaders expressed their condolences to Namibians, as well as his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a statement released earlier this week, Putin said the key events in Namibia&#8217;s modern history are closely tied to the legacy of &#8220;this remarkable person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;He led the fight for your country&#8217;s independence and played a crucial role in building Namibia&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140040.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>Russian president Vladimir Putin has extended his condolences to the Namibian nation over the death of founding president Sam Nujoma. Following Nujoma&#8217;s death, various world leaders expressed their condolences to Namibians, as well as his family. In a statement released earlier this week, Putin said the key events in Namibia&#8217;s modern history are closely tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":191423,"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":[258,256,10732,6974,6875,4706,724,7974,257,9928,13719,254],"class_list":["post-191422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condolences","tag-death","tag-extends","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-nujomas","tag-putin","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\/191422","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=191422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}