{"id":201518,"date":"2025-07-03T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-ships-45-000-tonnes-of-salt\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:44:55","slug":"namibia-ships-45-000-tonnes-of-salt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/namibia-ships-45-000-tonnes-of-salt\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Ships 45 000 Tonnes of Salt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Walvis Bay \u2014 Namibia made history yesterday afternoon when the country shipped its first consignment of goods &#8211; 45 000 tonnes of salt destined for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">This happened under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Minister of International Relations and Trade, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, described it as a defining moment in Namibia&#8217;s economic journey and Africa&#8217;s integration dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;This is not just an event in our national trade calendar. It is a tangible building block&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030097.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>Walvis Bay \u2014 Namibia made history yesterday afternoon when the country shipped its first consignment of goods &#8211; 45 000 tonnes of salt destined for Nigeria. This happened under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. The Minister of International Relations and Trade, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, described it as a defining moment in Namibia&#8217;s economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201519,"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":[258,256,4263,4706,257,11306,8999,254,12988],"class_list":["post-201518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola-news","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-salt","tag-ships","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tonnes"],"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\/201518","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=201518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}