{"id":5308,"date":"2024-02-25T10:02:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T10:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/geingobs-burial-underway-at-heroes-acre-in-windhoek\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T10:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T10:02:52","slug":"geingobs-burial-underway-at-heroes-acre-in-windhoek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/geingobs-burial-underway-at-heroes-acre-in-windhoek\/","title":{"rendered":"Geingob\u2019s burial underway at Heroes\u2019 Acre in Windhoek"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cvwp-video-player\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/#\" class=\"cvwp-load-video\" title=\"Geingob's burial underway at Heroes' Acre in Windhoek\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 25 \u2014 The burial of Namibia\u2019s Third President Hage Geingob is currently underway at the country\u2019s Heroes\u2019 Acre in Windhoek.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The military procession bearing Geingob\u2019s casket arrived at the Heroes\u2019 Acre shortly before noon on Sunday for the burial escorted by President Nangolo Mbumba and the late President\u2019s window Monica Geingos and members of his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The burial is a culmination of weeks-long memorial activities leading to a State memorial service held Saturday evening at the country\u2019s Independence Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President William Ruto joined dozens of leaders from the continent at the memorial service where he hailed the late leader as a leading voice in Africa\u2019s transformation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2024\/02\/ruto-sustains-call-to-reform-global-financial-order-at-hage-memorial\/\">Ruto sustains call to reform global financial order at Hage memorial<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Geingob passed away on February 4 while undergoing treatment. He had battled cancer since 2014.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 25 \u2014 The burial of Namibia\u2019s Third President Hage Geingob is currently underway at the country\u2019s Heroes\u2019 Acre in Windhoek. The military procession bearing Geingob\u2019s casket arrived at the Heroes\u2019 Acre shortly before noon on Sunday for the burial escorted by President Nangolo Mbumba and the late President\u2019s window Monica Geingos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}