The Governor of the Kavango West Region, Sirkka Ausiku, has called on the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Forestry to improve its procurement process to allow green schemes to run effectively. Hausiku made the remarks when she visited the Sikondo Green Scheme. Ausiku says she is happy with the progress at Sikondo Green Scheme and […]
The Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement has objected to Hyphen requiring a cash payment for the government to take up a 24% stake in Hyphen Hydrogen Energy. The cash for shares will be in addition to the land, water, and other resources it has already given to Hyphen to develop the Green Hydrogen energy project. Taking […]
The Swakopmund Municipality has appealed to the public to donate food and other items to local soup kitchens instead of people who beg on the streets. This, it says, will get people off the streets and better cared for. Speaking at a safety interaction meeting, the Chairperson of the Swakopmund Residents Association, John Hopkins, says […]
Botswana’s President, Mokgweetsi Masisi, made a brief one-day visit to Namibia just to touch base with President Hage Geingob on a number of bilateral issues between the two countries. Apart from attending to serious matters affecting both Namibians and the Batswana in their official capacities, Presidents Geingob and Masisi enjoy a solid personal friendship characterised […]
The High Court has postponed the judgement in the Xinfeng Investments challenge to tomorrow. The Chinese company is challenging the withdrawal of its mining licence by the Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo. Xinfeng has approached the Windhoek High Court on an urgent basis, asking the Court to nullify the minister’s decision with immediate […]
The President of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bisey |Uirab, has added the chamber’s voice to the cohort, saying that the ongoing global geopolitics are becoming a factor in international trade and investment. This, he says, is a worrisome trend. |Uirab was speaking at the inaugural State of the Business Address in the […]
Swakopmund Deacon Gabriel Shikongo has been ordained as a Roman Catholic Church Priest by Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda at the Holy Rosary Parish in Swakopmund. Newly ordained priest Gabriel Shikongo is the second Namibian to be ordained into the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Shikongo was actively involved in youth […]
Two suspects (ages 31 and 37) have been arrested in Windhoek’s Greenwell Matongo after executing a botched robbery of a Ford Ranger and other valuables at Auas View Park, Auasblick. According to the Namibian Police, five masked suspects armed with firearms and knives broke into the victims’ house and held them at gunpoint before tying […]
The Namibian Police have yet to release the identity of the sixth suspect, who allegedly jumped out of the vehicle and fled from the Okahandja shooting in April this year. In a police report released a week after the incident, the Head of Operations in the Namibian Police, Major General Elias Mutota, explained the police […]
The Katima Mulilo Border Post between Namibia and Zambia will start operating 24 hours a day by the end of next month. The Minister of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety, and Security, Dr. Albert Kawana, says this is one of the steps the government is taking to ensure smooth trade and services with its neighbouring countries. […]
