New data shows that the prevalence of global acute malnutrition among children under age five is above 5% in five southern African member states, including Namibia. Acute malnutrition is a form of under-nutrition caused by a decrease in food consumption and/or illness that results in sudden weight loss. According to the 2020 Synthesis Report released...
Twenty-four Covid-19 patients at Walvis Bay have recovered from the virus, health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula announced yesterday as the country recorded 68 new positive cases. However, 60 of the cases were reported at Walvis Bay, six in Windhoek, while Keetmanshoop and Swakopmund each reported one case. This brings the total number of confirmed cases...
President Hage Geingob yesterday implored ruling party leaders to “bury” and end slate politics, which has left the movement deeply divided before and after the 2017 elective congress. In a bid to eliminate the influence of slate politics, Geingob remarked that the so-called Team Harambee and Team Swapo should be buried for the sake of...
Some residents in Zambezi region are disappointed the regional council seems to have negligently failed to utilise over N$9.2 million allocated by government for the upgrading and installation of much-needed boreholes that would provide water to several constituencies. The affected residents are mostly from Judea Lyaboloma, Sibbinda, Linyanti, Kongola, Kabbe North and Kabbe South, as...
In addition to existing park entrance fees, the environment and tourism ministry will introduce the payment of a conservation fee, which will be charged to all visitors to national parks and game parks in addition to existing park entrance fees. The ministry’s spokesperson Romeo Muyunda explained that given Namibia’s park entrance fees are currently the...
In an attempt to address forest fires, environment and tourism commenced with its national fire management programme to detect, prevent and suppress fires in anticipation of the fire season from July to January each year. Spokesperson of environment and tourism Romeo Muyunda said due to the threat posed by fire, particularly in conservation of forest...
ǁAupexas ge N$1.8 biljunsa a ǂhâbasa !hūb a ǂhabase 5 000 ǁkhāǁkhā!nā-omde oms !aroma. Nē ǂanǂansas ge Ministers ǁGau!nâs, ǂNuwiǁkhāsib tsî !Hao!nāsi ǂŪsin dis Anna Nghipondokasa ǂoa ge wekheb Donertaxs ai ge dī, ǁnāpas ge MTCs di !garo!āǀkharigu skolgu projeksa gere ū!oa soab ai. Nē ǀasa projeks hîas ge MTCsa a ǂherexa-ū tsî ǂhanusise a...
During the opening of the Swapo party post-mortem meeting which started on Saturday on the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly poll, President Hage Geingob confessed there are areas where the party had failed its members. As the sole Swapo presidential candidate in 2019, Geingob said he saw that there was a cry for unity and...
Although the Presidential Commission into Claims of Ancestral Land Rights and Restitution concluded its fact-finding mission on the much-awaited recommendations, it will only be made public once President Hage Geingob studies it. Commission chairperson Judge Shafimana Ueitele last Friday presented the final report to President Geingob at State House on the progress the commission has...
Founding President Sam Nujoma did not mince his words when he spoke out against some ruling party members and supporters, saying he no longer wants to hear about Team Harambee and Team Swapo. Nujoma made the remarks on Saturday during the opening of the two-day Swapo party post-mortem meeting, which started on Saturday, on the...