The office of the Auditor General has hailed the Swakopmund Municipality as the only local authority in Namibia with good financial reports. The coastal town has for the past 16 years received the Auditor General’s Office’s clean audit.

The old and the young, as well as people with disabilities, all have to endure long queues to obtain their medicine at the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital pharmacy. Some patients wait as long as 10 hours, while others end up going home without their medicine.

Scientists have been urged to come up with a solution to food security as climate change poses a serious threat to food production. Climate change is heating the world and it is predicted that in the next 35 years, temperatures will continue to rise at two degrees Celsius annually.

Some youth at Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi region say alcohol and drug abuse is the main contributing factor to the increasing domestic violence. During a march against women abuse, organized by the White Ribbon Campaign at the town, the youth were called upon to unite in the fight against the increasing gender based violence […]

Namibia hopes to tap into US expertise in the agriculture sector, particularly food production. President Hage Geingob met US Secretary of Agriculture, Douglas Fisher, in New York who he informed that Namibia intended to accelerate food production especially through green schemes. Due to the current drought, a lot of people are facing food insecurity and […]

First Lady Monica Geingos has identified several underlying factors as challenges in securing funds for reproductive health programmes. She says under funding of such programmes and closing the gender-inequality gap, remain major stumbling blocks in the removal of social barriers. Geingos shared these views during a panel discussion on sexual and reproductive health on the […]

Health extension workers will no longer have to do their work on foot as they have received a welcome donation of 200 bicycles. The Pupkewitz Foundation donated the bicycles, worth 260 000 dollars to the Health and Social Services Ministry in the capital on Friday. Deputy Minister Juliet Kavetuna said the workers are being recruited […]

Chief Justices of Southern Africa are meeting in Windhoek for their annual conference which in 2016 is focusing on the prevention of organised crime. Addressing the event, National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi says organised crime has the potential to make countries ungovernable and should therefore be nipped into the bud.

Farmers in the Kavango East Region will now be represented on the National Land Policy Committee. The Kavango East Regional Farmers Forum believes their views are needed on the committee to address the challenges facing farmers.

The Deputy Minister responsible for Disability Affairs in the Vice-Presidents Office says there is a need for sign-language interpreters at all parliamentary sessions, broadcast live on television. Alexia Manombe-Ncube says this will allow the deaf community to follow deliberations and gain first-hand information on issues being discussed. Manombe-Ncube explains the need for this, saying Namibia […]