{"id":193834,"date":"2025-03-18T07:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-innovator-introduces-cost-effective-omwe-solution-amid-malaria-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T07:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:16:42","slug":"namibian-innovator-introduces-cost-effective-omwe-solution-amid-malaria-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-innovator-introduces-cost-effective-omwe-solution-amid-malaria-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian Innovator Introduces Cost-Effective Omwe Solution Amid Malaria Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>As Namibia continues to fight the growing malaria outbreak, local entrepreneur Urbano Shetunyenga (28) has introduced Omwe, a new insecticide paper aimed at providing an affordable and effective solution to combat malaria-carrying mosquitoes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Shetunyenga, the managing director of Omwe Insecticides Investments CC, developed the product after identifying a gap in the market for cost-effective mosquito control methods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;During my undergraduate studies in London in 2017, I pondered on a product that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503170038.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>As Namibia continues to fight the growing malaria outbreak, local entrepreneur Urbano Shetunyenga (28) has introduced Omwe, a new insecticide paper aimed at providing an affordable and effective solution to combat malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Shetunyenga, the managing director of Omwe Insecticides Investments CC, developed the product after identifying a gap in the market for cost-effective mosquito [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":193835,"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":[258,256,24546,17508,8519,7993,724,6953,257,50892,6582,6167,254],"class_list":["post-193834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-costeffective","tag-innovator","tag-introduces","tag-malaria","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-omwe","tag-outbreak","tag-solution","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\/193834","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=193834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}