{"id":25072,"date":"2022-07-17T16:53:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T16:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati"},"modified":"2022-07-17T17:08:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T17:08:54","slug":"endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati","title":{"rendered":"Endjala proposes fourth border post for Omusati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Omusati regional governor Erginus Endjala said the region is experiencing a high number of illegal border crossings, which negatively affects border control and management.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Endjala said this on Wednesday during his state of the region address at Outapi.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said the border policing area of the Omusati region covers approximately 162 km alongside the international borders between Namibia and Angola.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three gazetted border entry posts at Ruacana, Omahenene and Wakasamane. Most culprits who cross the borders illegally smuggle illicit goods such as fuel, alcohol, pharmaceutical products and cigarettes,\u201d Endjala said.<\/p>\n<p>He said to ease traffic at the border posts and address illegal border crossings, the region needs an additional border post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHence, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security should upgrade the Okapalelona police border control point to a fully-fledged border post,\u201d Endjala said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Omusati regional governor Erginus Endjala said the region is experiencing a high number of illegal border crossings, which negatively affects border control and management. Endjala said this on Wednesday during his state of the region address at Outapi. The governor said the border policing area of the Omusati region covers approximately 162 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12,16],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-25072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Endjala proposes fourth border post for Omusati - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Omusati regional governor Erginus Endjala said the region is experiencing a high number of illegal border crossings, ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Endjala proposes fourth border post for Omusati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Omusati regional governor Erginus Endjala said the region is experiencing a high number of illegal border crossings, ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-17T16:53:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-17T17:08:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_10-62d44215603f0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"499\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Endjala proposes fourth border post for Omusati\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-17T16:53:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-17T17:08:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati\"},\"wordCount\":157,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_10-62d44215603f0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/endjala-proposes-fourth-border-post-for-omusati\",\"name\":\"Endjala proposes fourth border post for Omusati - 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