Marine Spatial Planning, or MSP, is meant to ensure the co-existence of activities undertaken by all parties using the ocean. Namibia is currently drafting its MSP strategy that would integrate planning and management of the ocean.
The Office of the President will be reviewing how far government has come in implementing the Harambee Prosperity Plan and specific plans that were set to be achieved in 2016.
The Ovambanderu Traditional Authority met the Head of State behind closed doors. The Ovambanderu Traditional Authority delegation was sent by chief Aletta Nguvauva to engage government on challenges facing the Mbanderu community.
The Young Gladiators got off to a great start at the bi-annual African Union Sport Council Region Five Under-20 Games underway in Luanda, Angola, after beating Zimbabwe 2-0 over the weekend. Memory Ngonda and Millicent Hikuama scored for Namibia. Namibia goalkeeper Mellissa Matheus won the “Player of the Match” award thanks to her goalkeeping heroics. […]
Namibia’s most anticipated cycling event,the Desert Dash, kicked off in Windhoek yesterday, with more than 1000 cyclists taking part. The Desert Dash once again kicked of at the Grove Mall in Kleine Kuppe on Friday afternoon. The dash, which is considered by many as a bucket list event, sees cyclists from more than 20 nations […]
The seventh Swapo Party Women’s Council Congress has elected Eunice Ipinge as its new Secretary. Fransina Kahungu was elected deputy secretary. Counting and verification took over 16 hours before Attorney-General Sacky Shanghala declared the two candidates duly elected on Saturday. Though regretting the long wait, Shanghala dismissed any talk of officials possibly having rigged the […]
Ghana’s main opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo has won the country’s national election, defeating President John Mahama. The president Elect in his victory speech thanked the people of Ghana and promises to bring prosperity back to the country.
The tenth of December is International Human Rights Day as declared by the United Nations and Namibians celebrate this day through three interconnected events – also observing the Old Location Massacre and Women’s Day.
Marine biologist Bronwen Currie says the effect of fishing trawlers on the environment is incomparable to marine phosphate mining. Currie says phosphate mining would strip about three metres of the sea bottom including animals living there, while trawlers destroy only about 30 cm of the seabed’s surface.
The Namibian Police Inspector General is calling for the urgent and total re-design of the Chinatown business complex in Windhoek. Ndeitunga told NBC News that the tight-knitted compound has become a nest for crime, due in part to the fact that it has been allowed to double as living quarters for those who do business […]
