{"id":193415,"date":"2025-03-12T19:05:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-cholera-cases-recorded-in-over-a-decade\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T19:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T17:05:25","slug":"namibia-no-cholera-cases-recorded-in-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-no-cholera-cases-recorded-in-over-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: No Cholera Cases Recorded in Over a Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Health ministry executive director Ben Nangombe says Namibia has not recorded any cholera cases in the past 10 years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nangombe, who was speaking during a cholera elimination validation workshop yesterday morning, said although there has not been any cases reported, the cholera threat remains, especially as climate change continues to fuel outbreaks across Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;The risk persists, and complacency is our greatest adversary. Cholera remains an ever-present threat, exacerbated by climate change,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503120045.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>Health ministry executive director Ben Nangombe says Namibia has not recorded any cholera cases in the past 10 years. Nangombe, who was speaking during a cholera elimination validation workshop yesterday morning, said although there has not been any cases reported, the cholera threat remains, especially as climate change continues to fuel outbreaks across Africa. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631168:ef63ff4d426251ce29e7411fee1bcdb5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,10498,879,7671,4706,724,257,10499,254],"class_list":["post-193415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cases","tag-cholera","tag-decade","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-recorded","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631168:ef63ff4d426251ce29e7411fee1bcdb5:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193415","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=193415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}