Within less than two weeks, three fires were reported to the Keetmanshoop fire department. Uncontrolled fires are not a frequent occurrence at the southern town. Fewer than 30 fires were reported in 2018, and despite no fatalities recorded – the damage to property and infrastructure remains a burden.

The Head of State continues with town hall meetings to interact with communities, hear their concerns and respond to their queries. President Hage Geingob is at Ongwediva in the Oshana Region on Monday. Earlier in the day, the President visited the Eendama Mbali village in the Ompundja constituency to assess the drought situation and engage […]

Blocked drains have become a headache for some residents of Windhoek’s Havana Informal Settlement. For some time now, residents of Karas Street in particular, have been subjected not only to an unbearable stench coming from two blocked drains but to make matters worse, this dirty water sometimes flows into their homes.

NamPol have recovered a large number of stolen items at a house in Windhoek’s Goreagab Informal Settlement. Hundreds of people flocked to a house believed to be a storehouse for the stolen items.

The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) is inviting those who have lost their voter’s cards, and who are already on their registry, to apply for duplicates at its headquarters. Commission Chairperson Advocate Notemba Tjipueja says the supplementary registration of voters was a success.

Opposition parties have pulled out from the planned Electoral Commission of Namibia’s Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) hacking exercise, saying the machines’ guidelines restrict them from carrying out any tests. Political parties would try out or test whether the EVMs can be tampered with or not on 13 August.

Harmful cultural practices such as early marriage make it difficult to keep children from San communities in school. This was the observation of Mpungu Circuit Education Inspector Joseph Siteketa.

President Hage Geingob and his family celebrated his 78th birthday on Saturday at Hope Village, an orphanage in Windhoek. Children at the orphanage were treated to a birthday lunch and chatted with the first family, along with friends and staff from the Office of the President.

The Namibia National Teachers Union (NANTU) has committed itself to work with the Otjozondjupa Regional Education Directorate to help address shortcomings and challenges faced by both learners and teachers there. NANTU’s Regional Chairperson Job Nambili in an interview with NBC News on the sideline of the regional executive’s meeting wants disproportionate teacher-learner ratio and absenteeism […]

Erongo Governor Cleophas Mutjavikua has condemned the actions of farmers who are selling donated animal fodder for an income. More dismaying, he says, is the discovery that some who currently benefit from drought relief aid, under the pretext that they are farmers, are in fact not.