{"id":232925,"date":"2026-05-11T04:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-youth-urged-to-embrace-global-opportunities\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:20:22","slug":"namibia-youth-urged-to-embrace-global-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-youth-urged-to-embrace-global-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Youth Urged to Embrace Global Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">During the Commonwealth Day event on the final day of the National Youth Week at the Windhoek Showgrounds, leaders called on young Namibians to take advantage of global opportunities while remaining grounded and using the skills acquired to develop Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Discussions at the event focused on education, international cooperation, and youth participation in shaping the future of Namibia and the wider Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"95\">Maggy Beukes-Amiss, Africa representative of the Virtual University for Small States&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605070694.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>During the Commonwealth Day event on the final day of the National Youth Week at the Windhoek Showgrounds, leaders called on young Namibians to take advantage of global opportunities while remaining grounded and using the skills acquired to develop Namibia. Discussions at the event focused on education, international cooperation, and youth participation in shaping the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":232926,"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":[258,256,8321,6212,4706,724,257,13281,254,6206,6276],"class_list":["post-232925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-embrace","tag-global","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged","tag-youth"],"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\/232925","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=232925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}