{"id":194669,"date":"2025-03-27T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kunene-motorists-pedestrians-urged-to-desist-from-crossing-flooded-rivers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T08:31:02","slug":"namibia-kunene-motorists-pedestrians-urged-to-desist-from-crossing-flooded-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-kunene-motorists-pedestrians-urged-to-desist-from-crossing-flooded-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Kunene Motorists, Pedestrians Urged to Desist From Crossing Flooded Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Kunene police regional commander commissioner James Nderura has urged motorists and pedestrians to refrain from crossing flooded rivers, following heavy downpours recorded in the region over the past three weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Nderura on Wednesday emphasised the dangers of crossing or attempting to navigate flooded rivers, noting that the Kunene rivers are among the most hazardous, given the record of lives lost to drowning and vehicles being swept away in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">&#8220;As we are all aware, the region&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503270064.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>Kunene police regional commander commissioner James Nderura has urged motorists and pedestrians to refrain from crossing flooded rivers, following heavy downpours recorded in the region over the past three weeks. Nderura on Wednesday emphasised the dangers of crossing or attempting to navigate flooded rivers, noting that the Kunene rivers are among the most hazardous, given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194670,"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":[258,256,12277,15485,23564,3682,9709,4706,724,257,50971,7865,254,6206],"class_list":["post-194669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crossing","tag-desist","tag-flooded","tag-kunene","tag-motorists","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pedestrians","tag-rivers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"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\/194669","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=194669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}