{"id":214190,"date":"2025-11-19T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/namibia-meatco-makes-historic-export-under-afcfta-enters-kenyas-leather-market\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:23:50","slug":"namibia-meatco-makes-historic-export-under-afcfta-enters-kenyas-leather-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/namibia-meatco-makes-historic-export-under-afcfta-enters-kenyas-leather-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Meatco Makes Historic Export Under AfCFTA &#8230; Enters Kenya&#8217;s Leather Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco), the country&#8217;s largest meat and meat products processing and marketing entity, is set to make a historic breakthrough into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) trading framework with exports to Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">On Thursday this week, Meatco will dispatch two full containers of Wet Blue Hides from its Okapuka Tannery situated some 25km north of Windhoek, to Mombasa, Kenya, in a historic first export under the AfCFTA charter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Meatco has recently secured a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco), the country&#8217;s largest meat and meat products processing and marketing entity, is set to make a historic breakthrough into the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) trading framework with exports to Kenya. On Thursday this week, Meatco will dispatch two full containers of Wet Blue Hides from its Okapuka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":214191,"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":[250],"tags":[23164,258,256,9519,10346,13203,430,6097,24358,4356,9121,4706,257,254],"class_list":["post-214190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-afcfta","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-enters","tag-export","tag-historic","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-leather","tag-market","tag-meatco","tag-namibia","tag-news","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\/214190","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}