Hilma Nakanduungile OSHIKUNDE – The Ombaye Fishing company has donated 100 mattresses to pupils at Dr Abraham Iyambo Secondary School in Oshikunde constituency of Ohangwena region. The donation worth N$76 000 came after the school’s enrolment for the 2025 academic year exceeded the normal hostel accommodation figure, leaving some boarders without mattresses. Speaking at the...
Lylies Joel NKURENKURU – Kavango West governor Verna Sinimbo has emphasised regional ownership and encouraged the community to take an active role in the stewardship of water resources in the region. She was speaking on Tuesday during a visit to borehole sites at the Kakuro, Kamupupu, and Wiwi areas in Kavango West by delegates from...
Zebaldt Ngaruka GOBABIS – Bannerman Mining Company’s recent donations to various schools in the Omaheke region have been commended by education authorities. The mining company recently donated beds and mattresses worth more than N$90 500 to the Good Hope Primary School in the Epukiro constituency as well as school uniforms and bags to 400 pupils...
Lahja Nashuuta “We are all teachers, whether in classrooms, homes, or communities. And through education, we all have the power to shape a better Namibia.” This is the core belief of Reinhold Mutighoma, principal of Ekondjo Primary School. Mutighoma, a dedicated public servant and educationist, has spent the last 15 years shaping young minds and...
The noble teaching profession is under attack. Those who have daggers drawn against the profession are of the opinion that it is not catering enough for the hundreds of unemployed Namibians who have studied education. At the centre of the fire is government’s apparent inability to employ these would-be teachers; most of them fresh graduates. ...
On a typical morning in Windhoek, a 16-year-old girl scrolls through Instagram before getting out of bed. She’s not looking for news or inspiration, but she’s already comparing her life to influencers she’s never met. In Namibia, where much of the population is young, social media is not just a tool, it’s a mirror, a...
NAIROBI – Elections for a new parliament in Burundi got under way yesterday but with little risk of an upset after the main opposition was effectively barred from running. The impoverished landlocked country in east Africa has seen decades of ethnic violence, civil war and authoritarian rule.A former rebel group, the National Council for the...
FREETOWN – Deep inside a Sierra Leone national park, a mother of seven was about to set dozens of tree trunks ablaze to make charcoal. Producing the cheap fuel in this way is illegal in the protected rainforest near the capital of a country highly vulnerable to the ravages of climate change. But Aminata Sankoh,...
WASHINGTON – United States (US) President Donald Trump signed a new travel ban that comes into effect on Monday targeting 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen, reviving one of the most controversial measures from his first term. Trump said on Wednesday the measure was spurred by a makeshift flamethrower attack on a Jewish protest...
BRUSSELS – United States (US) defence chief Pete Hegseth yesterday pushed the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to agree a deal on increasing military spending that could satisfy president Donald Trump at a summit this month. The volatile US leader has demanded that alliance members boost defence budgets to 5% of their gross domestic product...