The ministry of health has confirmed a case of cholera in the Kunene region. The ministry’s executive director, Ben Nangombe, in a statement on Tuesday said a 55-year-old woman was admitted to the Opuwo District Hospital after experiencing watery diarrhea for two days. The patient received appropriate treatment as per established guidelines following her admission....
Rudolf Gaiseb Land and social justice activist Shaun Gariseb has raised concern over water supply at communal land recently handed to the /Khomanin community. The land reform ministry recently handed over two combined farms (portion 1 of the Farm Groot Korasieplaats and the remainder of the Farm Groot Korasieplaats) to the community. The land reform...
KEETMANSHOOP-Members of the Bondelswarts community in Warmbad, south of Karasburg in the //Kharas region, staged a peaceful demonstration last week over what they say is unfair treatment and exclusion from government development services. Reading a petition addressed to the //Kharas Regional Council, spokesperson Charles Laberloth said they are rising up against the fact that properties...
The Epukiro Secondary School, which was the best performing school in Omaheke region in 2024, recently held an awards ceremony in honour of top achievers. The school had the best results in the region for the Namibia Senior Secondary Advanced Subsidiary as well as the Namibia Senior Certificate Ordinary external and internal examinations. Principal Tjivahe...
KEETMANSHOOP – Defence minister Frans Kapofi has clarified Namibia’s role in the DRC conflict. He was responding to questions from Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Elma Dienda. Kapofi said Namibia’s support for a fellow SADC member state does not necessarily have to be militarily. He told Dienda that from his understanding of her questions, she seemed...
NKURENKURU – More than 30 000 beneficiaries in the Kavango West Region have received their monthly food parcels under the drought relief programme, since Friday. About 39 000 households across all the eight constituencies in the region are beneficiaries of the drought relief programme. The programme distributes food parcels per household every month to cater...
NKURENKURU – A total of 1 487 malaria cases were recorded in the Kavango West region from the beginning of February to the first week of March. Six deaths were also recorded in the region during February, chief medical officer of the Kavango West Health Directorate Beata Siteketa said during a consultative meeting convened by...
MARIENTAL – Deputy energy minister Kornelia Shilunga on Tuesday officiated at electrification of 115 households in the informal residential area of Maltahöhe. Another 21 households in the August Dam and Kries settlements also received electricity. The inauguration event was held at the open field in the Vaalkamp informal settlement in Maltahöhe. The Ministry of Mines...
ADDIS ABABA – The African Union yesterday said the announcement of a parallel government in war-torn Sudan risked cleaving the country, already ravaged by nearly two years of unrest.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been locked in a brutal conflict with Sudan’s army (SAF) since April 2023 in a war that has claimed tens...
MAPUTO – The latest cyclone to hit northern Mozambique has claimed at least six lives and destroyed more than 900 homes, authorities said yesterday, as the storm weakened.Cyclone Jude hit the Indian Ocean country on Monday, bringing winds of up to 195 kilometres an hour and more than 250mm of rain within 24 hours, the...