{"id":201546,"date":"2025-07-03T20:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/namibia-nnn-pushes-for-kunene-dam\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T18:20:07","slug":"namibia-nnn-pushes-for-kunene-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/namibia-nnn-pushes-for-kunene-dam\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: NNN Pushes for Kunene Dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has appealed to Egypt to support Namibia&#8217;s bold plan to transform Kunene region into a national powerhouse for food and livestock production, starting with the construction of a new dam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Speaking during a courtesy meeting with Egypt&#8217;s ambassador to Namibia, Wael Lofty Batea at State House, the president said Namibia prioritises food security and regional development, and cooperation with Egypt &#8211; especially in infrastructure and skills development &#8211; will be&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507030100.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has appealed to Egypt to support Namibia&#8217;s bold plan to transform Kunene region into a national powerhouse for food and livestock production, starting with the construction of a new dam. Speaking during a courtesy meeting with Egypt&#8217;s ambassador to Namibia, Wael Lofty Batea at State House, the president said Namibia prioritises food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201547,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,7146,415,3682,4706,257,47041,16296,254],"class_list":["post-201546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dam","tag-egypt-news","tag-kunene","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-nnn","tag-pushes","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\/201546","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}