In an effort to mitigate losing one million people in road accidents each year the Global Road Safety Leadership Course trained people from 32 countries, including Namibia, as champions in road safety.
China will donate food aid worth US$1 million as part of the Assistance Fund for South-South Cooperation, run in collaboration with the UN World Food Programme. Chinese Ambassador Yiming Zhang annonced this during the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
Patients at Oshikuku State Hospital received free cataract surgery recently from local and international ophthalmologists. Cataracts is considered the main cause of blindness across the world with a higher prevelance in developing countries.
The Ministry of Public Enterprises has roped in all unions in the country that deals with state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to deliberate on the needs of the workers they represent. The ministry aims to transform the corporate culture among SOEs towards becoming more performance orientated.
Popular Democratic Movement President McHenry Venaani said leaders who put their interests ahead of those of the country or the people that they purport to lead should not be elected in positions of influence. Venaani added that doing so is counterproductive and against the ethos of nation-building.
Swapo has held a parade through the streets of Windhoek as a warm-up to the November elections. Dressed in their colourful Swapo regalia, members of the party and its supporters took part in the procession down the streets of Windhoek. The parade started at the party’s headquarters, to Rocky Crest, and ended in Katutura at […]
The Oshana Regional Council has handed over toilet facilities to needy households in its rural areas to address the challenge of sanitation. The Ondangwa Urban Constituency Councillor, Leonard Negonga could not wait since taking office three months ago to hand over five toilets to as many households covering Oshitayi and Ontanga villages.
The Daughters of Africa project is on the road to equip school learners with entrepreneurship skills, ways to deal with gender-based violence and promote gender equality and sexual reproductive health. Daughters of Africa is a project under the Star for Life Organisation, that aims to contibute to the United Nations’ suitainable development goals, namely to […]
The Oshakati Town Council has set aside N$250 000 towards its annual malaria indoor residual spraying. The campaign will cover most of the town’s suburbs.
The Motor Vehicle Accident Fund (MVA) has urged the public to refrain from unnecessarily crowding up crash scenes as it could lead to more injuries. In a statement issued on Friday the MVA also pleaded with members of the public to refrain from looting accident scenes. The MVA Fund says the looting by members of […]
