{"id":219160,"date":"2026-01-04T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-canada-warns-tourists-of-fraud-and-crime-risks-in-namibia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:01:53","slug":"namibia-canada-warns-tourists-of-fraud-and-crime-risks-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-canada-warns-tourists-of-fraud-and-crime-risks-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Canada Warns Tourists of Fraud and Crime Risks in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>The Canadian government has warned its citizens travelling to Namibia to &#8220;exercise a high degree of caution,&#8221; citing high levels of crime and frequent cases of financial fraud, particularly targeting tourists.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In its latest travel advisory issued last week, Canada said crime remains a concern across Namibia, with violent incidents reported mainly in the capital, Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">According to the advisory, these include muggings, burglaries and carjackings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">&#8220;Violent crime occurs, particularly in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601020291.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 Canadian government has warned its citizens travelling to Namibia to &#8220;exercise a high degree of caution,&#8221; citing high levels of crime and frequent cases of financial fraud, particularly targeting tourists. In its latest travel advisory issued last week, Canada said crime remains a concern across Namibia, with violent incidents reported mainly in the capital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219161,"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":[258,256,7984,5357,8666,4706,724,257,7349,254,2013,6853],"class_list":["post-219160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-fraud","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tourists","tag-warns"],"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\/219160","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=219160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}