{"id":199585,"date":"2025-06-05T13:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-caprivi-secession-resurrects-udp-demands-self-determination\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T13:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:09:50","slug":"namibia-caprivi-secession-resurrects-udp-demands-self-determination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-caprivi-secession-resurrects-udp-demands-self-determination\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Caprivi Secession Resurrects &#8211; UDP Demands Self-Determination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Katima Mulilo \u2014 After years of dormancy, calls for the independence of the former Caprivi region &#8211; present day Zambezi &#8211; resurfaced yesterday after the banned United Democratic Party (UDP) staged a demonstration in Katima Mulilo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The UDP was defiant, demanding self-determination and the withdrawal of Namibian forces from the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The demonstration resurfaced tensions between Caprivian secessionist groups and the Namibian government, dating to the 90s. While the government maintains that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506050212.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>Katima Mulilo \u2014 After years of dormancy, calls for the independence of the former Caprivi region &#8211; present day Zambezi &#8211; resurfaced yesterday after the banned United Democratic Party (UDP) staged a demonstration in Katima Mulilo. The UDP was defiant, demanding self-determination and the withdrawal of Namibian forces from the region. The demonstration resurfaced tensions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199586,"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":[258,256,10288,6979,4706,724,257,51547,14590,31781,254,38905],"class_list":["post-199585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caprivi","tag-demands","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-resurrects","tag-secession","tag-selfdetermination","tag-south-africa-today","tag-udp"],"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\/199585","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=199585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}