{"id":210068,"date":"2025-10-16T19:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-urges-tougher-counterterrorism-measures-amid-regional-insurgencies\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:51:49","slug":"namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-urges-tougher-counterterrorism-measures-amid-regional-insurgencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-nandi-ndaitwah-urges-tougher-counterterrorism-measures-amid-regional-insurgencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Nandi-Ndaitwah Urges Tougher Counterterrorism Measures Amid Regional Insurgencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called for a more stringent counterterrorism mechanism to ensure Namibia remains a force to recon with amid recent neighbouring countries&#8217; insurgency activities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">She was speaking at the first live Namibian Defence Force (NDF) counterterrorism exercise at the Etiro training base at Karibib on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">&#8220;As you are aware, geopolitical risks were recently witnessed in two of our sister countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, namely&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160253.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>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called for a more stringent counterterrorism mechanism to ensure Namibia remains a force to recon with amid recent neighbouring countries&#8217; insurgency activities. She was speaking at the first live Namibian Defence Force (NDF) counterterrorism exercise at the Etiro training base at Karibib on Wednesday. &#8220;As you are aware, geopolitical risks were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210069,"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":[258,256,25926,37799,7305,4706,724,20099,257,4268,254,30259,6810],"class_list":["post-210068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-counterterrorism","tag-insurgencies","tag-measures","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tougher","tag-urges"],"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\/210068","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=210068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}