{"id":245601,"date":"2026-09-26T03:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-omaruru-mayor-rallies-farmers-behind-fmd-measures\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:30:19","slug":"namibia-omaruru-mayor-rallies-farmers-behind-fmd-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-omaruru-mayor-rallies-farmers-behind-fmd-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Omaruru Mayor Rallies Farmers Behind Fmd Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Omaruru mayor Eberth Gariseb says the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has created uncertainty among farmers and farm workers whose livelihoods depend on livestock farming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Namibia announced an outbreak of FMD on Wednesday, with 10 cases confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Gariseb expresses support for farmers, farm workers and their families in the region, as well as others in the livestock sector affected by the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">He urges farmers and farm workers at Omaruru to remain alert and follow the control measures&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609250585.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>Omaruru mayor Eberth Gariseb says the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak has created uncertainty among farmers and farm workers whose livelihoods depend on livestock farming. Namibia announced an outbreak of FMD on Wednesday, with 10 cases confirmed. Gariseb expresses support for farmers, farm workers and their families in the region, as well as others in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":245602,"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":[258,256,3030,5951,7625,7305,4706,724,257,4669,11878,254],"class_list":["post-245601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-farmers","tag-fmd","tag-mayor","tag-measures","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-omaruru","tag-rallies","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\/245601","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=245601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}