{"id":217938,"date":"2025-12-24T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-children-are-starving-in-a-country-rich-with-natural-resources-itula\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T08:34:30","slug":"namibia-children-are-starving-in-a-country-rich-with-natural-resources-itula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-children-are-starving-in-a-country-rich-with-natural-resources-itula\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Children Are Starving in a Country Rich With Natural Resources &#8211; Itula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) president Panduleni Itula says it is unacceptable that Namibian children are going to bed hungry when the country is rich with natural resources.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Itula said this in his Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve message on Tuesday, adding that he hopes a new Namibia will emerge in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;As we look to the new year, hope remains a new dawn is possible. A dawn of accountability, a dawn of leadership that serves rather than rules. A dawn of a new Namibia, hope, compassion and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512240105.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>Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) president Panduleni Itula says it is unacceptable that Namibian children are going to bed hungry when the country is rich with natural resources. Itula said this in his Christmas and New Year&#8217;s Eve message on Tuesday, adding that he hopes a new Namibia will emerge in 2026. &#8220;As we look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217939,"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":[258,256,7371,5042,31699,4706,724,8499,257,6482,12809,254,21806],"class_list":["post-217938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-country","tag-itula","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-natural","tag-news","tag-resources","tag-rich","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starving"],"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\/217938","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=217938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}