{"id":302386,"date":"2021-03-21T08:09:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T06:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=302386"},"modified":"2021-03-21T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T06:09:07","slug":"omatjete-river-blocks-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=302386","title":{"rendered":"Omatjete River blocks traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marthina Mutanga<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A FLOODING river caused a delay in travel time for people going Omatjete to Omaruru after heavy rains fell in the Erongo Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The heavy rains in the Erongo and Kunene regions gave hope to residents that the searing drought that they have been experiencing for the past eight years might come to end.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The people stuck on the banks of the raging torrent had to look on while heavy trucks drove through while they had to look for an alternative route to reach Omaruru.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Omatjete River blocks traffic\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tlzCWU50WtQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marthina Mutanga \u00a0 A FLOODING river caused a delay in travel time for people going Omatjete to Omaruru after heavy rains fell in the Erongo Region. \u00a0 The heavy rains in the Erongo and Kunene regions gave hope to residents that the searing drought that they have been experiencing for the past eight years might &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":302387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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