Auleria Wakudumo ONDANGWA – The Ondangwa Town Council has announced that the 12th edition of the 2025 Ondangwa Annual Trade Fair is scheduled to take place from tomorrow to Saturday. The town’s spokesperson Petrina Shitalangaho-Mutikisha said the event will take place at its usual venue, the Ondangwa Trade and Exhibition Centre. She added that over...
Lahja Nashuuta The Ministry of Mines and Energy has been issued a disclaimer of opinion by the Office of the Auditor General, citing poor regulatory oversight and widespread non-compliance in managing gold mining licences. The audit covered the period from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2023, focusing on the ministry’s oversight of three major...
Lahja Nashuuta Namibians will head to the polls on 26 November 2025 to elect their regional councillors and local authority representatives, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has announced. Chief electoral and referenda officer Peter Shaama made the announcement during the launch of the regional and local authority electoral calendar in Windhoek on Tuesday. He...
Auleria Wakudumo ONDANGWA – The Ondangwa Regional Court slapped Julius Shinyama with a 40-year prison sentence after being convicted of raping his biological daughter five years ago. The court found out that Shinyama raped his daughter on two different occasions in 2020 and impregnated her. A baby whose gender was not revealed was born but...
Belinda Kulatau RUNDU – Cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) are on the rise in the Kavango East region. This was revealed during the regional activation of the #EndGenderBasedViolence Namibia campaign, held recently at the Kavango East Regional Council. Statistics shared during the event showed that, despite efforts by the police to combat this heinous crime,...
Lahja Nashuuta Kunene’s newly appointed regional governor Vipuakuje Muharukua has laid out an ambitious plan to transform the region into the wealthiest one in Namibia. His focus is on job creation, agriculture, mining and infrastructure development. In an exclusive interview with New Era, he said Kunene’s untapped potential makes it a “region of possibilities”. “I...
Rudolf Gaiseb Landless People’s Movement president, Bernadus Swartbooi, has slammed Urban and Rural Development Minister James Sankwasa, for firing Omuthiya councillor Johannes Ndeutepo. He said the minister acted prematurely, without involving the council, when he fired Ndeutepo for not residing within the jurisdiction of his office. Speaking at a media engagement onTuesday, Swartbooi discouraged the...
NAIROBI – Chanting “Ruto must go,” thousands of protesters flooded Nairobi’s streets to demand the resignation of the president. They waved Kenyan flags and carried branches as a symbol of peaceful opposition. Police had deployed barricades and razor wire to seal off major roads, especially those leading to the State House, President Ruto’s official residence,...
US President Donald Trump took a victory lap at NATO’s Hague summit yesterday, joining leaders in reaffirming the “ironclad” commitment to protect each other after allies agreed to his demand to ramp up defence spending. The unpredictable US leader appeared keen to take the plaudits as he secured a key foreign policy win by getting...
The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) 2025 annual sports games officially started at Otjiwarongo’s Paresis Sports Stadium with athletics on Monday. Police chief Joseph Shikongo officially launched the 28th edition of the championships with a roll call of the 14 regional police teams at the Paresis Sports Stadium. He said the annual sport games are part...