{"id":208414,"date":"2025-09-28T07:11:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mishake-muyongo-supporters-continue-with-calls-for-zambezi-to-be-separate-state\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T05:11:49","slug":"namibia-mishake-muyongo-supporters-continue-with-calls-for-zambezi-to-be-separate-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-mishake-muyongo-supporters-continue-with-calls-for-zambezi-to-be-separate-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mishake Muyongo Supporters Continue With Calls for Zambezi to Be Separate State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em>A group that wants the Zambezi region &#8211; which they call the Caprivi Strip &#8211; as an independent state have called for the return of exiled secessionist leader Mishake Muyongo and the release of all &#8220;Caprivi political prisoners&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The members of the United Democratic Party (UDP) marched from the Katima Mulilo open market to the Zambezi Regional Council office on Thursday, where they handed over their petition to Zambezi governor Dorothy Kabula.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Muyongo, a former member of the National Assembly and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260218.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>A group that wants the Zambezi region &#8211; which they call the Caprivi Strip &#8211; as an independent state have called for the return of exiled secessionist leader Mishake Muyongo and the release of all &#8220;Caprivi political prisoners&#8221;. The members of the United Democratic Party (UDP) marched from the Katima Mulilo open market to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208415,"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":[258,256,6137,8005,52436,52437,4706,724,257,8644,254,6017,9064,7392],"class_list":["post-208414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-continue","tag-mishake","tag-muyongo","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-separate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-supporters","tag-zambezi"],"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\/208414","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=208414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}