{"id":218242,"date":"2025-12-27T10:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-agriculture-ministry-clarifies-decision-on-fried-chicken-import-products\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T10:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:42:37","slug":"namibia-agriculture-ministry-clarifies-decision-on-fried-chicken-import-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-agriculture-ministry-clarifies-decision-on-fried-chicken-import-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Agriculture Ministry Clarifies Decision On Fried Chicken Import Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform has clarified that all fried chicken products coming into the country are allowed as long as they have a valid veterinary import permit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Ministry spokesperson Simon Nghipandulwa&#8217;s clarification to The Namibian on Tuesday comes after a notice from the ministry suggesting that such products from South Africa have been prohibited or banned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">According to the initial notice seen by The Namibian, the importation of fried chicken products,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512260395.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>The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform has clarified that all fried chicken products coming into the country are allowed as long as they have a valid veterinary import permit. Ministry spokesperson Simon Nghipandulwa&#8217;s clarification to The Namibian on Tuesday comes after a notice from the ministry suggesting that such products from South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218243,"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":[258,256,1633,16355,12020,7430,50724,10453,6857,4706,724,257,7418,254],"class_list":["post-218242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agriculture","tag-chicken","tag-clarifies","tag-decision","tag-fried","tag-import","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-products","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\/218242","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=218242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}