{"id":350084,"date":"2011-03-30T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/namibia-declares-floods-emergency\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T16:00:05","slug":"namibia-declares-floods-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/namibia-declares-floods-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia declares floods emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"40.322916666667\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>30 March 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>12:00 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Namibia&#8217;s President Hifikepunye Pohamba has declared a state of emergency following serious flooding in the north of the southern African country.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 people are reported to have drowned and some 10,000 displaced, many from the town of Oshakati.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Frauke Jensen in the capital Windhoek says livestock have been lost, crops destroyed and roads washed away.  <\/p>\n<p>There has been heavy rainfall since January, causing water levels to rise in the Zambezi and Okavango rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, more than 90 people were killed by floods in Namibia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-africa-12913487\" title=\"Namibia declares floods emergency\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Namibia declares floods emergency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 30 March 2011 Last updated at 12:00 ET Namibia&#8217;s President Hifikepunye Pohamba has declared a state of emergency following serious flooding in the north of the southern African country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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