{"id":198003,"date":"2025-05-13T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mps-approve-n398-million-budget-for-2025-26-after-lengthy-discussions-and-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:15:15","slug":"namibia-mps-approve-n398-million-budget-for-2025-26-after-lengthy-discussions-and-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mps-approve-n398-million-budget-for-2025-26-after-lengthy-discussions-and-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: MPs Approve N$398-Million Budget for 2025\/26 After Lengthy Discussions and Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>Members of parliament (MPs) on Friday approved the National Assembly&#8217;s N$398-million budget for the 2025\/26 financial year after weeks of objections, consultations and concerns over limited resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The National Assembly (NA) budget for the previous financial year was N$196 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Of the current allocation budget, N$363.2 million is for operational purposes, while N$5 million is for developmental purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This follows a meeting between various political parties&#8217; chief whips with deputy NA&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505130028.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>Members of parliament (MPs) on Friday approved the National Assembly&#8217;s N$398-million budget for the 2025\/26 financial year after weeks of objections, consultations and concerns over limited resources. The National Assembly (NA) budget for the previous financial year was N$196 million. Of the current allocation budget, N$363.2 million is for operational purposes, while N$5 million is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198004,"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":[258,256,10880,6080,5987,12183,20032,7260,51338,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-198003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approve","tag-budget","tag-concerns","tag-discussions","tag-lengthy","tag-mps","tag-n398million","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","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\/198003","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=198003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}