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Rukoro: Swanu coalition won’t cripple Nudo
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Rukoro: Swanu coalition won’t cripple Nudo

Barry Rukoro, the president of a National Unity Democratic Organisation (NUDO) breakaway group, has insisted that his faction’s newly-formed coalition with Swanu will not cripple Nudo.  The marriage will also have no bearing on the party’s operations nor will it affect Nudo’s relevance, the former football administrator said.  Rukoro provided the surety to his followers...

NNFU wants mobile unit abattoir for Kunene
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NNFU wants mobile unit abattoir for Kunene

The Namibia National Farmers’ Union (NNFU) has reiterated its call for government to set up a mobile unit abattoir in the Kunene region to create market access opportunities for the area’s farmers.  NNFU’s chief executive officer Kuniberth Shamathe, in the union’s latest newsletter, said it is high time for the mobile unit abattoir in the...

Congested farms concern Omaheke councillors 
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Congested farms concern Omaheke councillors 

GOBABIS – Crowded farms, hopelessness among corridor farmers and landlessness remain growing concerns in the Omaheke region, the regional leadership has admitted.  Both Okorukambe constituency councillor Rocco Nguvauva and his Gobabis constituency counterpart, Augustinus Tebele used the Omaheke Regional Council’s recent meeting to table motions aimed at addressing issues of corridor farmers and overcrowding at...

Kauandenge: Nudo will never be hijacked …as manifesto promises rural development, land reform
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Kauandenge: Nudo will never be hijacked …as manifesto promises rural development, land reform

OTJINENE – The turnout at the party’s manifesto launch on Saturday and the united front within the party’s rank and file should be a clear demonstration that Nudo will never be hijacked by outside forces, despite numerous attempts. This was the emphatic message from party secretary general Josef Kauandenge at Otjinene on Saturday, where they...

Nondja dorukukutu kuna kara mevango limwe tupu momukunda Otjozondjupa Mukunda horowero guna kara tupu neroli limwe
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Nondja dorukukutu kuna kara mevango limwe tupu momukunda Otjozondjupa Mukunda horowero guna kara tupu neroli limwe

Rukukutu kuna gumu vatungimo momukunda horowero gwaOtjozondjupa unene owo vatunga konomukunda doponze zodoropa, ava vakara asi kugwanenamo mauwa melikwamo lyokugavera nondja dorukukutu. Eyi kayiwizire nye poruzera siruwo oso nkuruministeragona John Mutorwa kakadingwire sinkwa ntani mukunda gwa Otjozondjupa, omu kakagwanekerere kumwe nonompitisili domukunda; omu muna kwatere nguuru James Uerikua,  ntani munasipundi gondango zomukunda Marlayn Mbakera, ntani...

Omaheke plant agri college
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Omaheke plant agri college

GOBABIS – The Omaheke Regional Council has set plans in motion to establish the region’s first fully-fledged agricultural college.  If it comes to fruition, the college will endeavour to among others address acute food shortage and cases of malnutrition.  The plan is to set up the college at Farm du Plessis in the region’s Okorukambe...

Buitepos town status push intensifies 
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Buitepos town status push intensifies 

GOBABIS – Omaheke Regional Council chairperson wants Buitepos settlement to be upgraded to a town. Ignatius Kariseb, who is the regional councillor for the Kalahari constituency, made the call during a recent council meeting at Gobabis and said such a move will pave the way for much-needed development at the settlement and attract investors that...

Local Germans want new, inclusive joint declaration
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Local Germans want new, inclusive joint declaration

The Forum of German-Speaking Namibians, in its message in remembrance of the 120th anniversary of the 1904 genocide extermination order against the Ovaherero, called on the Namibian and German governments to formulate a new and inclusive joint declaration. Yesterday, 2 October, officially marked 120 years since the commander of imperial German troops, general Lothar von...

Namibia to comply with EU deforestation law … beef sector most affected
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Namibia to comply with EU deforestation law … beef sector most affected

The Livestock and Livestock Products’ Board of Namibia has set the wheels in motion by making sure that local farmers and beef-exporting abattoirs comply with the new and highly-stringent European Union deforestation regulations.  The new regulations, which will come into effect on 1 January 2025, will require all countries, trade partners and companies seeking to...

Don’t politicise hunger – PM…Government needs N$1.3 billion drought war chest
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Don’t politicise hunger – PM…Government needs N$1.3 billion drought war chest

The politicisation of drought relief, officials’ failure to take good care and lack of public awareness about the ongoing drought relief programme are harbingers crippling the government’s drought relief efforts. Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila highlighted these challenges during yesterday’s opening of the two-day National Platform on the Implementation of the 2024/2025 Drought Relief Programme, which...