{"id":208838,"date":"2025-10-03T19:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-etosha-fire-brought-under-control-president-vows-to-protect-the-national-treasure\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:24:53","slug":"namibia-etosha-fire-brought-under-control-president-vows-to-protect-the-national-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-etosha-fire-brought-under-control-president-vows-to-protect-the-national-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Etosha Fire Brought Under Control … President Vows to Protect the ‘National Treasure’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has ordered that no resources be spared to save Etosha National Park after massive fires destroyed parts of the country’s top tourist attraction. She said Etosha is the lifeblood of Namibia’s tourism and must be protected at all costs.<\/p>\n

Speaking through Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare in Parliament on Wednesday, the president declared the protection of Etosha National Park and its surrounding communities a top national priority, while highlighting both the urgency and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has ordered that no resources be spared to save Etosha National Park after massive fires destroyed parts of the country’s top tourist attraction. She said Etosha is the lifeblood of Namibia’s tourism and must be protected at all costs. Speaking through Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare in Parliament on Wednesday, the president declared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208839,"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":[258,256,8228,6877,27790,6600,4706,724,6687,257,2450,6202,254,13776,9639],"class_list":["post-208838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brought","tag-control","tag-etosha","tag-fire","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-president","tag-protect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-treasure","tag-vows"],"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\/208838","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=208838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}