{"id":208084,"date":"2025-09-24T19:03:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-pressured-to-activate-immediate-emergency-measure-for-street-children\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:03:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:03:55","slug":"namibia-govt-pressured-to-activate-immediate-emergency-measure-for-street-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-pressured-to-activate-immediate-emergency-measure-for-street-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt Pressured to Activate &#8216;Immediate Emergency Measure&#8217; for Street Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><em>The government, through the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, is being pressured to find an immediate intervention and a plan on the escalating crisis of children living on the streets across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This comes as a notice of questions was given in the National Assembly by Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) member of parliament Lilian Lutuhezi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Lutuhezi said she would direct an inquiry to minister of gender equality and child welfare Emma Kantema-Gaomas on 2&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509240043.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>The government, through the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, is being pressured to find an immediate intervention and a plan on the escalating crisis of children living on the streets across the country. This comes as a notice of questions was given in the National Assembly by Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670020:62c7fe368a126272f4e60e759f099e4c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[22578,258,256,7371,6990,4357,11471,4706,724,257,7347,254,7714],"class_list":["post-208084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-activate","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-emergency","tag-govt","tag-measure","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-pressured","tag-south-africa-today","tag-street"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670020:62c7fe368a126272f4e60e759f099e4c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208084","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=208084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}