Grootfontein Municipality will soon make land available for housing, including for young people. This assurance was given by the municipality’s chief executive officer, Kisco Sinvula during his engagement with the youth this week.
Human remains suspected to be that of three men who went missing, have been discovered at farm De-Rust about 60 kilometers west of Uis, behind the Brandberg mountains. It is alleged that the three men from Gobabis, Seun Omiseb (28), Abraham Kheinamse (36), and Dawid Uniseb (46) were reported missing in the mountains in March […]
Ohangwena Governor Walde Ndevashiya is confident of a landslide victory for SWAPO in next month’s elections. Ndevashiya made these remarks at the launch of the election campaign, where the party’s candidates for both local and regional council elections were also introduced.
President Hage Geingob has told the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy that Namibia’s reforms in the fishing sector would help close loopholes that had been exploited in the past. Geingob, during a telephonic conversation with the chair of the Panel and Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg commended Norway for its cooperation in […]
Bernadette Jagger also met with a group of volunteers who have plans to roll-out campaigns on gender-based violence, which is rife in the country, and left many people vulnerable. Jagger applauded the youth for the initiative and said the topical issue of gender-based violence and fight to root it out is a collective responsibility.
Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare says the Government is committed to empowering communities. Bernadette Jagger said this when she visited state-funded income-generating projects in the Otjinene Constituency in the Omaheke Region. There are 20 income-generating projects in Omaheke.
About 40% of the candidates contesting next month’s local authority elections in the //Kharas Region are women. However, no woman is contesting the regional council election in the region.
Cabinet has resolved to declare sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) a threat to humanity. This is in response to the public outcry for serious Government intervention amidst an increased number of gender-related violent incidences in the country.
The call by the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) for all nonprofit organisations, including churches, to register in order to monitor the movement of their money, has been received with mixed reactions. FIC placed advertisements in local newspapers in which non-profit organisations involved in raising, disbursing and cross-border movement of funds are required to register themselves, […]
The Namibia-Nigeria Joint Commission meeting is still on the cards. Nigeria’s outgoing High Commissioner to Namibia, Lilian Onoh, said this when she bade farewell to President Hage Geingob at State House.
