NKURENKURU – The environment ministry has recorded five human fatalities and six injuries due to crocodile attacks in the Kavango West and East regions between January 2024 and February 2025. The ministry’s spokesperson, Romeo Muyunda, in an interview with Nampa on Sunday, revealed that the ministry has paid N$680 000 to the victims of human-crocodile...
Namibia’s Founding President, Sam Nujoma, has been hailed as an exemplary leader who championed the rights of his people, and his legacy as one of the founding fathers of Pan-Africanism will endure forever. This was said by Angolan president and chairperson of the African Union, Joao Lourenco, who was among the foreign dignitaries who attended...
TSUMEB – A 31-year-old man succumbed to injuries he sustained after he was struck with a wine bottle during an argument at a bar at Onathinge village in the Oshikoto region on Sunday. The incident occurred around 23h00. The victim was identified as Amon Kakwena. It is alleged that a quarrel erupted between Kakwena and...
TSUMEB – A 37-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping his nieces aged nine and seven at Amilema village in the Oshikoto region’s Omuthiya constituency. The Namibian Police Force’s regional crime investigations coordinator, deputy commissioner Titus Ekandjo, told Nampa the incidents occurred Friday night. The suspect lives with the victims and his biological mother,...
OTJIWARONGO – A 15-year-old boy allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his family home at Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa region on Sunday. The victim was identified by his relatives as Fabian Kariue, a Grade 10 learner at Otjiwarongo Senior Secondary School. Namibian Police Force (NamPol) detective chief inspector Timotheus Gabriel told Nampa the victim...
WINDHOEK – A 41-year-old man allegedly committed suicide by hanging at Karasburg on Sunday. The victim was identified as Pius Johannes Swartbooi. His next of kin were informed. Swartbooi’s body was found hanging from a tree by a family member around 07h20 on Sunday. Swartbooi had previously mentioned his intention to commit suicide. “No foul...
Laura Kuenssberg “Bruised but motivated”, was how one of Volodymyr Zelensky’s entourage described how they had been feeling, as a small group of journalists crammed into what felt like an even smaller room at Stansted Airport. The British state had done its best to give the Ukrainian president “all bells and whistles” when he arrived...
Auleria Wakudumo Omulumenhu weedula 34 okwa xulifa eshi vati a patekena moitenda yopomakende moshitukulwa shaShikoto. Edi oda kolekwa komukulunhu wopolifi moshitukulwa shaShikoto, Commissioner Teopolina Kalompo-Nashikaku. Nakufya okwa tongololwa oye Matheus Kakeyongo, omukalimo womomukunda Oluundje. Nashikaku okwa holola ta ti omulumenhu okwa hangika a endjelela pekende kounona vofikola poundingosho hava ifanwa Epalela mOnyaanya. Otaku fekelwa Kakeyongo...
Auleria Wakudumo Ovanhu vatatu, mwa kwatelwa ovashingi vavali otava mono epango lopaunamiti moshipangelo shepangelo mOnandjokwe sha dja eshi otuwa imwe ye lidenga mumwe naikwao. Eshi osha ningilwa mopate yo-B1, pOniimbwele pokati kOnethidi nOnathinge moshitukulwa shaShikoto, sha ningwa Olomakaya lwopo 03h30.Oshiningwanima osha kolekwa komukulunhu wopolifi moshitukulwa shaShikoto Teopolina Kalompo-Nashikaku. Otaku hokololwa omushingi woPolo Vivo kwa li...
Ignatius Nambundunga WINDHOEK – Uuyuni awuhe omo wa li muuzilo woshilandopangelo mOlyomakaya ga zi ko. MOmukuto gwaNaambo, omwa li okathilu kenyenye. Esiku lyotango lyaMaalitsa otali ka dhimbulukiwa koyendji mondjokonona yaNamibia, sho engathithi enene lya mbombolokele komawendo gomapendafule gedhina Heroes Acre moshitopolwahogololo shaKhomas, opo ya ninge oontaliyiho dhefumbiko lyOmukokolipresidente Sam Nujoma. Nujoma oye omupresidente gwotango gwaNamibia,...