{"id":224735,"date":"2026-02-23T00:55:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-congo-move-beyond-trade-rhetoric\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:55:27","slug":"namibia-congo-move-beyond-trade-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-congo-move-beyond-trade-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia, Congo Move Beyond Trade Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Despite strong historical and political ties between Namibia and the Republic of Congo, trade and investment between the two countries remain disappointingly low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">This is the postulation of trade and international relations executive director Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking at the 5th Session of the Namibia-Congo Joint Permanent Commission of Cooperation in Windhoek, Nghipondoka-Robiati said it was time for both countries to move beyond friendship and translate agreements into real&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200537.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>Despite strong historical and political ties between Namibia and the Republic of Congo, trade and investment between the two countries remain disappointingly low. This is the postulation of trade and international relations executive director Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati yesterday. Speaking at the 5th Session of the Namibia-Congo Joint Permanent Commission of Cooperation in Windhoek, Nghipondoka-Robiati said it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224736,"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":[258,256,4554,4367,4706,724,257,18382,254,5979],"class_list":["post-224735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-congo","tag-move","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-rhetoric","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade"],"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\/224735","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=224735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}