Higher Education Minister Itah Kandjii-Murangi said there is a need for an academic research taskforce. She said there’s need for an inter-institutions task force of academics to research and augment national efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Namibia. Murangi said this during the launch of a high-level inter-universities research taskforce on COVID-19 at […]

The newly appointed Governor of the Omaheke Region, Pio Nganate says his focus will be on attracting investors to the region by shaping up the livestock sector. The region is popularly known as Cattle Country.

The grouping of regions into zones during the countrywide lockdown was based on their proximity, inter-dependence and road network connectivity. This was explained by Deputy-Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security, Daniel Kashikola during discussions at COVID-19 Communication Centre.

Zambian citizens are being called upon to wear masks in public places as this is now mandatory. The country’s Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya said this during the routine updates on COVID-19 in Lusaka.

Namibian-born Nangula Hopwood is a frontline medical practitioner from Halifax in the United Kingdom (UK) and works as an out of hours doctor for the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust around hospitals in Sheffield, Manchester and Crewe.

Namibia National Students Organisation’s (NANSO) //Kharas regional executive has expressed concern over first-year students at institutions of higher learning who might find it difficult to adjust to e-learning. The organisation’s regional chairperson Issakar Tjandero says that first-year students might experience difficulty learning on the internet unsupervised and many of them in the region do not […]

Loic Bathfield, the founder of Africa Gas Solution which manufactured the oxygen generator plant, believes Namibia has the capacity to do more. The company has been importing oxygen generators from France for the past four years.

Poor or lack of availability of mobile network in some areas of the Kavango West Region has resulted in many possible beneficiaries not having benefited from the Emergency Income Grant (EIG) payments. This was confirmed by senior public relations officer of the Kavango West Regional Council, Salomo Tenga.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services has dismissed as untrue an article by a local daily newspaper, which gave an impression that some of the arrivals in Namibia in March this year are lost and might be the source of community transmission. The ministry stated that all arrivals are with the ministry including the […]

The chief executive officer of Oryx Properties, owner of several commercial properties, said they will give various forms of relief to its tenants. Oryx Properties is a Namibian-owned company that owns and manages establishments such as Maerua Mall, Gustav Voigts, Baines and Elisenheim commercial properties.