{"id":243120,"date":"2026-09-03T20:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ohangwena-village-thirsty-since-june\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T18:49:43","slug":"namibia-ohangwena-village-thirsty-since-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ohangwena-village-thirsty-since-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Ohangwena Village Thirsty Since June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Residents of Ohandjombali village in the Ohangwena region have been left without access to running water since June, forcing them to buy expensive supplies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The situation is a challenge every year around June, resident Hilaria Aukongo says, forcing villagers to buy water at Eenhana &#8211; about 20km from the village in the Omundaungilo constituency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">They sometimes drink from wells, but the wells also dry up, she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Aukongo says this leaves residents with no other option but to buy water at a cost&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609030530.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Residents of Ohandjombali village in the Ohangwena region have been left without access to running water since June, forcing them to buy expensive supplies. The situation is a challenge every year around June, resident Hilaria Aukongo says, forcing villagers to buy water at Eenhana &#8211; about 20km from the village in the Omundaungilo constituency. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":243121,"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":[258,256,7486,4706,724,257,14312,254,31132,10217],"class_list":["post-243120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-june","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-ohangwena","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thirsty","tag-village"],"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\/243120","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=243120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}