{"id":231781,"date":"2026-04-29T15:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-poised-as-southern-africas-new-budget-fuel-hub\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:55:07","slug":"southern-africa-namibia-poised-as-southern-africas-new-budget-fuel-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/southern-africa-namibia-poised-as-southern-africas-new-budget-fuel-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: Namibia Poised As Southern Africa&#8217;s New Budget Fuel Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>Namibia is set to supply fuel to Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia at a cheaper rate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">This is as Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote last year announced plans to build a 2 000km fuel pipeline from Walvis Bay through Botswana to Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Dangote is working closely with the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) to set up a US$3-billion (about N$49.6 billion) facility targeted at promoting intra-African trade in fuels and will establish a tank farm at Walvis Bay to transport fuel at a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604290387.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>Namibia is set to supply fuel to Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia at a cheaper rate. This is as Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote last year announced plans to build a 2 000km fuel pipeline from Walvis Bay through Botswana to Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Dangote is working closely with the African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":231782,"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":[258,256,6287,6080,7570,7448,4706,724,257,11553,254,7153],"class_list":["post-231781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-budget","tag-fuel","tag-hub","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-poised","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern"],"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\/231781","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=231781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}