{"id":4238,"date":"2014-07-18T11:39:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2014-07-18T11:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T04:39:48","slug":"local-namibia-ngos-owe-europe-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/local-namibia-ngos-owe-europe-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Namibia NGOs owe Europe millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of delegation of the European Union (EU) to Namibia has confirmed that two locally-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have agreed to repay misused donor funds.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ambassador Raul Fuentes Milani the Namibian Non-Governmental Organisation Forum (Nangof) Trust and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Regional Secretariat have made arrangements to return the money.<\/p>\n<p>Nangof Chief Executive Officer Ivin Lombardt confirmed that the civil society umbrella body is repaying the EU, but said the misspending happened before he took over. Misa\u2019s regional manager of finance and administration, Bramwell Kamudyariwa, said the audit of the 2010 project was being done but denied any agreement yet with the EU to repay the money.<\/p>\n<p>According to Milani the misuse was discovered after an audit was done following the completion of projects funded by the EU and administered by the two organisations. \u201cThis is a very unfortunate situation which is very frequent. When we give funds we expect the receivers to comply with the agreements,\u201d said Milani&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Namibia News\" href=\"http:\/\/sun.com.na\/local-news\/local-ngos-owe-europe-millions.68614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of delegation of the European Union (EU) to Namibia has confirmed that two locally-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have agreed to repay misused donor funds. According to Ambassador Raul Fuentes Milani the Namibian Non-Governmental Organisation Forum (Nangof) Trust and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Regional Secretariat have made arrangements to return the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,2911,529,522,2914,2915,2910,4706,724,2912,2913,257,254,4693],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambassador-raul-fuentes-milani","tag-eu","tag-european-union","tag-media-institute-of-southern-africa","tag-misa","tag-misused-donor-funds","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian-non-governmental-organisation-forum","tag-nangof","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}