Vendors at Tuhangeni Market in Okuryangava’s ‘Stop and Shop’ area are pleading with the City of Windhoek to address the unhygienic conditions at the market. The market is in heaps of garbage, dirty toilets and blocked drains.

The 48-year-old Rehoboth woman arrested on Sunday for an alleged hit and run incident in Rehoboth’s Kuvukiland residential area on Saturday made her first appearance at the Rehoboth Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Esmerelda Benz appeared before Magistrate Kandinawapa Nangombe on a charge of culpable homicide, reckless and or negligent driving and failure to assist the […]

The Commander of the Namibian Defence Force’s 21 Motorised Infantry Brigade – Brigadier General Erastus Kashopola, on Thursday handed over the reins to incoming Brigadier General Martin Shikomba, after having served the military for 29 years. He handed over command to Shikomba at Tobias Hainyeko Garrison in Windhoek.

Despite a moratorium calling for no houses to be built on unserviced land at Groot Aub, this practice continues. The City of Windhoek put in place the ban in 2017, in an effort to stop the illegal erection of structures.

The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture has announced that schools will close, as indicated on the school calendar, on 9 August, and not on 2 August, as indicated earlier by Regional Education Directorates. The ministry issued a statement saying the wrong dates were forwarded, without the approval or endorsement of the Executive Director. All […]

Namibia has expressed its gratitude for the solidarity shown in response to the country’s drought situation. The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation said this while briefing diplomats accredited to Namibia, in Windhoek.

Namibia remains committed to advocate for Africa’s common position as contained in the Ezulwini Consensus and the Sirte Declaration. The declaration calls for the reform of the UN Security Council. The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah shared the country’s official stance when she addressed members of the diplomatic corps on various bilateral […]

Judgement in the case of a Windhoek resident, on trial in the High Court for brutally stabbing his girlfriend to death in 2014, will be made public on Tuesday. On 20 June this year, High Court Judge Nate Ndauendapo after he listened to submissions by both State advocate Seredine Jacobs and the accused’s Legal Aid-funded […]

Namibia has reiterated its commitment to continue nurturing its bilateral relations with China. Economic Planning Minister Obed Kandjoze highlighted a number of Chinese projects in Namibia which he said transformed the Namibian economy. On the other hand, Chinese Ambassador to Namibia Zhang Yiming said Namibia and Africa as a whole, can largely benefit from the […]

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa Amadhila applauded residents of the Omukandu and Oshutuntu villages for volunteering during the construction of the Omukandu-Oshituntu pipeline.