2016’s Heroes day will be commemorated at the town of Walvis Bay in the Erongo Region next week Friday. Every year since Independence in 1990, Namibia celebrates Heroes’ Day on 26 August to commemorate the start of the armed struggle, which was launched at Omugulugwombashe in the Omusati region in 1966, when SWAPO guerrillas fired […]

The Sesfontein settlement has been without a mortuary for the past seven years. The old mortuary was demolished with plans to build a new one but this was never completed.

Inclusive planning is essential to achieve the objectives of the National Development Plans in Namibia. This was said by the Deputy Minister of Economic Planning, Lucia Iipumbu at a consultative meeting of NDP5 at Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa region.

A new Somalian policy in tandem with an ongoing amnesty program is meant to get al-Shabaab militants to abandon the group. Former fighters are being rehabilitated in a special centre.

The African Union’s Agenda 2063 requires African countries to be among the best performers in measures on global quality of life. That was said by the Gender Equality and Research Director, Victor Shipoh, at the Africa Day of Decentralisation held at Opuwo in the Kunene Region. Shipoh said the Namibian government was committed to gender […]

The Ministry of Land Reform wants to consolidate the Land and Tenure Policies to be responsive to Namibia’s needs in terms of land administration. The Ministry of Land Reform held a one day consultative meeting to review the two policies.

Farmers in the Okakarara Constituency of the Otjozondjupa region have lost more than 200 livestock due to a poisonous plant. The loss mainly occurred in the Outemba village after the animals fed on the plant, known as poison leaf. Councillor Vetaruhe Kandorozu told Nampa that the deadly plant claimed an estimated 200 cattle annually in […]

The National Equitable Economic Empowerment Framework (NEEEF) should bring transformation and restructuring to Namibia’s economy. Re-elected President of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) Sven Thieme made the remark at the Annual General Meeting on Friday. Thieme said the NCCI shared the concern about racial economic inequalities in society and it totally disapproved […]

Three persons have been taken to the Katima Mulilo State Hospital in the Zambezi region after collapsing due to smoke from the town’s dumping site on Monday morning. Two trainees from the Zambezi Vocational Training Centre and a cleaner from the UNAM Campus had difficulties in breathing after inhaling the smoke. Two UNAM Campus staff […]

Namibia hosts the inaugural session of the Mali-Namibia Joint Permanent Commission of Co-operation in Windhoek on Monday and Tuesday. In a media statement, the International Relations and Co-operation Ministry said the session would be held under the Co-operation Framework Agreement, signed between the two countries last year. Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Malian Foreign Affairs, African […]