{"id":235054,"date":"2026-06-01T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zambezi-caught-in-deadly-malaria-web\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:07:10","slug":"namibia-zambezi-caught-in-deadly-malaria-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zambezi-caught-in-deadly-malaria-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Zambezi Caught in Deadly Malaria Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Zambezi regional governor Dorothy Kabula-Simushi says the region is the country&#8217;s malaria epicentre, accounting for 24 194 cases out of 82 991 nationally.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Statistics for January to May indicate that 79 malaria deaths and 6 356 hospital admissions were recorded nationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Namibia recently observed World Malaria Day under the theme &#8216;Harnessing Knowledge, Prevention, and Treatment Towards Eliminating Malaria in Namibia&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606010550.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>Zambezi regional governor Dorothy Kabula-Simushi says the region is the country&#8217;s malaria epicentre, accounting for 24 194 cases out of 82 991 nationally. Statistics for January to May indicate that 79 malaria deaths and 6 356 hospital admissions were recorded nationally. Namibia recently observed World Malaria Day under the theme &#8216;Harnessing Knowledge, Prevention, and Treatment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235055,"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":[258,256,6646,9555,7993,4706,724,257,254,13861,7392],"class_list":["post-235054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caught","tag-deadly","tag-malaria","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-web","tag-zambezi"],"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\/235054","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=235054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}