{"id":246611,"date":"2026-10-08T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eu-supports-northern-namibia-beef-market-access\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:00:47","slug":"namibia-eu-supports-northern-namibia-beef-market-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-eu-supports-northern-namibia-beef-market-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: EU Supports Northern Namibia Beef Market Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>The European Union says it supports efforts to allow Namibia&#8217;s northern communal farmers to enter international markets if the regions attain disease-free status to export meat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;We do support the veterinary authorities in the northern communal areas to increase access of farmers to the market and strengthen animal farm health,&#8221; EU ambassador to Namibia Ana Beatriz Martins told Desert FM yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">She said this after the EU announced a temporary suspension of the import of fresh beef, sheep and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610080073.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>The European Union says it supports efforts to allow Namibia&#8217;s northern communal farmers to enter international markets if the regions attain disease-free status to export meat. &#8220;We do support the veterinary authorities in the northern communal areas to increase access of farmers to the market and strengthen animal farm health,&#8221; EU ambassador to Namibia Ana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246612,"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":[6450,258,256,11094,4356,4706,724,257,4282,254,8253],"class_list":["post-246611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beef","tag-market","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supports"],"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\/246611","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=246611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}