{"id":241294,"date":"2026-08-17T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rangers-fight-off-suspected-poachers-in-outjo-area-shootout\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:11:01","slug":"namibia-rangers-fight-off-suspected-poachers-in-outjo-area-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-rangers-fight-off-suspected-poachers-in-outjo-area-shootout\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Rangers Fight Off Suspected Poachers in Outjo Area Shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>Anti-poaching rangers exchanged gunfire with two suspected poachers at a farm in the Outjo district on Saturday morning, leaving one suspect injured.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">According to the police, the incident occurred at about 09h00 when two men, aged 30 and 45, allegedly entered the farm Kifaru and were spotted by anti-poaching rangers on patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">The suspects allegedly opened fire after seeing the rangers, who returned fire and injured the 30-year-old suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He was transported to a hospital at Outjo for medical&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608170105.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Anti-poaching rangers exchanged gunfire with two suspected poachers at a farm in the Outjo district on Saturday morning, leaving one suspect injured. According to the police, the incident occurred at about 09h00 when two men, aged 30 and 45, allegedly entered the farm Kifaru and were spotted by anti-poaching rangers on patrol. The suspects allegedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241295,"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":[258,256,10922,4345,4706,724,257,16807,722,7591,10196,254,7846],"class_list":["post-241294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-area","tag-fight","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-outjo","tag-poachers","tag-rangers","tag-shootout","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected"],"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\/241294","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=241294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}