{"id":231259,"date":"2026-04-24T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/namibia-mwiya-backs-medal-hunt-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:11:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:11:22","slug":"namibia-mwiya-backs-medal-hunt-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/namibia-mwiya-backs-medal-hunt-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Mwiya Backs Medal Hunt in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Namibia is confident its wrestlers will win medals at the African Continental Championships in Egypt following full funding, preparation and strong squad selection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Eight of the country&#8217;s wrestlers will be competing at the continental wrestling showdown in Alexandria from 27 April to 4 May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Speaking to <em>The Namibian Sport<\/em>, Namibia Sports Commission chief administrator Freddy Mwiya expresses confidence in the wrestlers, saying they are the country&#8217;s podium performance athletes and that all necessary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240233.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia is confident its wrestlers will win medals at the African Continental Championships in Egypt following full funding, preparation and strong squad selection. Eight of the country&#8217;s wrestlers will be competing at the continental wrestling showdown in Alexandria from 27 April to 4 May. Speaking to The Namibian Sport, Namibia Sports Commission chief administrator Freddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":231260,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,7102,4697,415,6644,12337,53952,4706,257,254],"class_list":["post-231259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-hunt","tag-medal","tag-mwiya","tag-namibia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/231259","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}