Two boys aged 8 and 13 stole a Toyota Fortuner at farm Kaliombo in the Karibib area. According to the Namibian Police weekend crime report, the two minors left for school on Friday in their school uniform while wearing casual wear underneath their uniform. The boys, according to the police, diverted from school and hitchhiked to […]
The President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, will undertake a state visit to Namibia from April 27 to 28, 2023. In a media statement, State House said the visit is part of Finland’s engagement with Africa and is part of its strategic goal of growing connections with Africa. This includes extending its diplomatic presence, supporting the […]
Subsistence farmers in the Kavango East Region are optimistic for a bumper harvest, which they attribute to the training they received from the German development agency, GIZ, on climate change. Farmers who have been attending training on conservation agriculture from GIZ since 2011 are confident of good harvests despite poor rainfall this year. “Conservation agriculture […]
Parents of learners at Thipanana Junior Primary School in Kavango East’s Mukwe Constituency are calling for a holiday school during the winter trimester break. This is because the learners did not allegedly have lessons since the beginning of the year, as they had only one teacher. The parents gathered in front of the school gate […]
Cooperation between China and Namibia to enhance small and medium enterprises in the country can be a gateway for economic growth and help tackle high unemployment rates. This is the sentiment of Sakeus Ikela, a representative of Namibian youth at the 7th China-Africa Youth Festival currently underway in Beijing. The week-long youth festival will see […]
The Aranos Constituency Regional Councillor, Salomon Boois, says his office is inundated with unfair labor practice complaints because there is no office of the Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations, and Employment Creation in the village. Boois says those registering labor cases at his office are mostly farm workers. “Every month I have maybe three to five […]
Descendants of the Nama and Ovaherero gathered at Lüderitz in the ||Kharas Region to commemorate 118 years since tens of thousands of their ancestors were killed by the Germans. The three-day Genocide Remembrance, which started on Friday, was attended by the Ovaherero Traditional Authority and the Nama Traditional Leaders Association. The Herero and Nama genocide […]
A total of N$52.3 million was raised from the sale of 28,500 metric tons (MT) of horse mackerel under the Governmental Objective Fishing Quota. The total was inclusive of N$11,000 raised from application fees for the total quota of 30,540 MT of horse mackerel bids held on March 31, 2023. A media release issued by […]
There has been an increase of 87% in passenger vessels at the ports compared to the 2021/22 financial year. When passenger liners dock at the Walvis Bay harbor, tour guide operators get excited as such vessels bring relief to tourism businesses that were affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Namibian Ports Authority has recorded a […]
The Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board (NIPDB) and Bank Windhoek held an SME finance symposium to engage small and medium enterprises on how to acquire finances for their businesses. The engagement also aimed to equip existing small and medium enterprises with the knowledge to succeed in acquiring loans from Bank Windhoek. Entrepreneurs were urged […]
