{"id":212141,"date":"2025-11-01T08:24:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-national-sanitation-symposium-commences-at-katima-mulilo\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T06:24:20","slug":"namibia-national-sanitation-symposium-commences-at-katima-mulilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-national-sanitation-symposium-commences-at-katima-mulilo\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: National Sanitation Symposium Commences At Katima Mulilo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Minister of agriculture, fisheries, water and land reform Inge Zaamwani-Kamwi has called for urgent national reflection on the state of sanitation and for a firm commitment to ending open defecation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">In a speech read on her behalf by deputy minister Ruth Masake at Katima Mulilo on Monday, Zaamwani-Kamwi states that eliminating open defecation requires ensuring everyone has access to a basic toilet in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The minister addressed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280193.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>Minister of agriculture, fisheries, water and land reform Inge Zaamwani-Kamwi has called for urgent national reflection on the state of sanitation and for a firm commitment to ending open defecation. In a speech read on her behalf by deputy minister Ruth Masake at Katima Mulilo on Monday, Zaamwani-Kamwi states that eliminating open defecation requires ensuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":212142,"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":[258,256,9670,11831,30685,4706,724,6687,257,10773,254,5689],"class_list":["post-212141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commences","tag-katima","tag-mulilo","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-sanitation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-symposium"],"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\/212141","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=212141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}