{"id":238684,"date":"2026-07-14T06:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ministry-fences-off-fmd-threat-at-border\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:56:55","slug":"namibia-ministry-fences-off-fmd-threat-at-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-ministry-fences-off-fmd-threat-at-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Ministry Fences Off FMD Threat At Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>The government is rolling out a N$1.5-billion fencing strategy in the ||Kharas region to shore up Namibia&#8217;s foot-and-mouth disease-free status amid outbreaks in neighbouring countries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Minister of agriculture, fisheries, water and land reform Inge Zaamwani says the aim of the veterinary fencing project is to strengthen foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) defences, create buffer zones, and protect beef exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Namibia remains FMD-free without vaccination, retaining its highly coveted international export&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607130113.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 government is rolling out a N$1.5-billion fencing strategy in the ||Kharas region to shore up Namibia&#8217;s foot-and-mouth disease-free status amid outbreaks in neighbouring countries. Minister of agriculture, fisheries, water and land reform Inge Zaamwani says the aim of the veterinary fencing project is to strengthen foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) defences, create buffer zones, and protect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,1900,18014,5951,6857,4706,724,257,254,6791],"class_list":["post-238684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-fences","tag-fmd","tag-ministry","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238684","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=238684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}