{"id":193558,"date":"2025-03-14T19:09:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-12-year-old-boy-lost-in-etosha-national-park-finally-found-reunited-with-family\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:09:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T17:09:20","slug":"namibia-12-year-old-boy-lost-in-etosha-national-park-finally-found-reunited-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-12-year-old-boy-lost-in-etosha-national-park-finally-found-reunited-with-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: 12-Year-Old Boy Lost in Etosha National Park Finally Found, Reunited With Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>The police in the Oshikoto region and members of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism have found the boy (12) who went missing for five days in the Etosha National Park.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The boy reportedly went missing from the Ekume area on 23 February and was found on 28 February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">According to acting regional commander deputy commissioner James Nandapo, the boy was found at around 05h00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Nandapo says Salom Shangula and his grandmother, together with others, were busy harvesting mopane worms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;After&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140420.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>The police in the Oshikoto region and members of the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism have found the boy (12) who went missing for five days in the Etosha National Park. The boy reportedly went missing from the Ekume area on 23 February and was found on 28 February. According to acting regional commander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[6922,258,256,7654,27790,5203,8415,7408,4706,724,6687,257,7191,9538,254],"class_list":["post-193558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-12yearold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boy","tag-etosha","tag-family","tag-finally","tag-lost","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-park","tag-reunited","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193558","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=193558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}