GENEVA – The United Nations on Monday called for the unconditional release of the estimated 10 000 people arbitrarily detained in Eritrea, including politicians, journalists, and students. The Horn of Africa country has been ruled with an iron fist by president Isaias Afwerki (79) since independence from Ethiopia in 1993 and ranks near the bottom...
Adolf Kaure The National Planning Commission director general Kaire Mbuende said that quality healthcare is a foundation to human development, productivity, and inclusive growth. Mbuende made these remarks during the recent inaugural meeting of the presidential task force on health held in Windhoek. The health task force was established by President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on 1...
Iuze Mukube Minister of Finance Ericah Shafudah has opposed a motion by a local microlender to be found in contempt of a court order that directed her to desist in interfering with the loading of new deductions onto the government’s Payroll Deduction Management System (PDMS). The motion filed on 11 December by local microlender, Entrepo...
Max Henrich OMUTHIYA – Following several days of consistent rainfall, Oshikoto region governor Sacky Kathindi has urged all farmers in the region to prepare their fields promptly and to plant sufficient crops to ensure family food security and potential surplus. Speaking to Nampa on Friday, Kathindi said that the abundant rainfall in northern Namibia is...
Rudolf Gaiseb Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp has warned private tertiary institutions against raising their current fee structures. She said that intitutions doing so risk being disqualified from the subsidised tertiary education model. “We will not pay an increased new fee. We will pay what is in existence,” she...
Namibian rangelands offer a diverse range of forage resources for both livestock and wildlife. These plant groups include grass, trees, bushes and forbs utilised by both grazing and browsing animals. Grass, however, is the primary feed base for grazing livestock in Namibia. The abundance of the most valuable grass species in many parts of the...
Tisha Steyn Smart agriculture can address the four main challenges in Namibia’s food production: affordability, market access, climate resilience, and long-term food stability. This will culminate in sustainable food security, which is presently vulnerable to risk. Building a resilient future requires rethinking how Namibia produces food more efficiently and sustainably, and with stronger links from...
Uakutura Kambaekua Namibiab ǂhanub ge mîǁguiba ge ū, ǂnaumâiǁanǁguigu !nâ ra hâ omaridi di !gôaba nēsib mâ-ai 28.7 persentga xu 14.35 persentgu kōse ǁgôaxa-ūsa. Hāǀaro raseb ǂhanuba ra ǁgūbas ge !gao!gao !oabadi ǀkha aiǂhomisatoa !hū!âdi !gôaba 25 111 xu 50 000 kōse ūkhâi tsî ǂnuwisa omdi !gôaba 12 598 xu 55 126 kōse ǂharo kaisa...
Lissony Njembo The Mukaa OtjaHosea Women National group from Okotjitituo, last week donated a well-constructed corrugated iron house to a destitute pensioner, Kamii Mbirijona in Coblenz village in the Okakarara constituency of Otjozundjupa region. Mukaa Hosea is a group of women married to men of the OtjaHosea Traditional Peer Group. The group, as per Ovaherero...
Namibia and Botswana have pushed back the completion date of the Trans-Kalahari Railway feasibility study by two months, and both countries say the project remains firmly on track and central to regional trade ambitions. Speaking at Okahandja on Friday during the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) meeting, Minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi said the...