{"id":208659,"date":"2025-10-01T07:18:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-visas-now-available-in-dr-congo-boosting-regional-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T05:18:49","slug":"namibian-visas-now-available-in-dr-congo-boosting-regional-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-visas-now-available-in-dr-congo-boosting-regional-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian Visas Now Available in DR Congo, Boosting Regional Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>The Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG) announced on Tuesday that the Namibian Consulate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now issuing visas to all citizens of the DRC who wish to travel to Namibia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">WBCG spokesperson Maria Paulus said the development marks the successful outcome of the group&#8217;s ongoing efforts to ease cross-border movement along the Walvis Bay-Ndola-Lubumbashi Development Corridor, a major trade route connecting Namibia&#8217;s port to central southern Africa. The group says the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510010072.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 Walvis Bay Corridor Group (WBCG) announced on Tuesday that the Namibian Consulate in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is now issuing visas to all citizens of the DRC who wish to travel to Namibia. WBCG spokesperson Maria Paulus said the development marks the successful outcome of the group&#8217;s ongoing efforts to ease cross-border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208660,"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":[258,256,8531,4554,724,6953,257,4268,254,5979,5767],"class_list":["post-208659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boosting","tag-congo","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-visas"],"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\/208659","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=208659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}