{"id":198530,"date":"2025-05-21T12:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwahs-first-international-trips-reinforce-sadc-ties\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:14:46","slug":"namibia-nandi-ndaitwahs-first-international-trips-reinforce-sadc-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwahs-first-international-trips-reinforce-sadc-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s First International Trips Reinforce SADC Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s first international official trips since taking office have drawn mixed reactions from international relations experts and political analysts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Some praise her reaffirmation of Namibia&#8217;s regional foreign policy, while others question the real impact of such symbolic gestures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s first international working tour included Angola, Botswana and Zambia, and aimed to deepen bilateral ties and push forward economic cooperation through joint infrastructure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505210087.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s first international official trips since taking office have drawn mixed reactions from international relations experts and political analysts. Some praise her reaffirmation of Namibia&#8217;s regional foreign policy, while others question the real impact of such symbolic gestures. Nandi-Ndaitwah&#8217;s first international working tour included Angola, Botswana and Zambia, and aimed to deepen bilateral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":198531,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4263,4337,4706,50957,257,14222,1412,254,7051,11638],"class_list":["post-198530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-international","tag-namibia","tag-nandindaitwahs","tag-news","tag-reinforce","tag-sadc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties","tag-trips"],"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\/198530","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=198530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}