{"id":208439,"date":"2025-09-28T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-environment-ministry-orders-distribution-of-meat-of-90-drowned-buffaloes-to-communities\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:12:49","slug":"namibia-environment-ministry-orders-distribution-of-meat-of-90-drowned-buffaloes-to-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-environment-ministry-orders-distribution-of-meat-of-90-drowned-buffaloes-to-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Environment Ministry Orders Distribution of Meat of 90 Drowned Buffaloes to Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Environment and tourism minister Indileni Daniel has directed that the meat of 90 drowned buffaloes be distributed to surrounding communities in the Zambezi region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The buffaloes were reportedly fleeing lions from the Chobe National Park in Botswana earlier this week when they fell off a steep river bank and drowned. The incident was later discovered by a local farmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Parliamentarian Lilian Lutuhezi on Thursday questioned the minister on whether the meat has been tested amid safety concerns from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260160.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment and tourism minister Indileni Daniel has directed that the meat of 90 drowned buffaloes be distributed to surrounding communities in the Zambezi region. The buffaloes were reportedly fleeing lions from the Chobe National Park in Botswana earlier this week when they fell off a steep river bank and drowned. The incident was later discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,16780,7103,7474,11075,8503,13074,6857,4706,724,257,6186,254],"class_list":["post-208439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buffaloes","tag-communities","tag-drowned","tag-environment","tag-meat","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208439","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}