Author: Correspondent (Correspondent )

The SADC Parliamentary Forum with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) on Monday signed an agreement to consolidate and strengthen democracy in southern Africa.

The recent judgement to decriminalise gay sex has provided a brief reprieve for Namibia’s queer community, still reeling from political and societal attempts to criminalise their lives and a recent spate of murders of members of that community. 

The residents of Onamhinda village on the outskirts of Helao Nafidi town near Oshikango Border Post are struggling to feed themselves as a result of the prolonged drought and a lack of access to government’s various relief programmes.

Russia has expressed willingness to share its best practices and experiences of the universal basic income grant (BIG) with Namibia, chairperson of the Russian federal council committee on social policy Yelena Perminova has said.

The Rehoboth Town Council has announced the commencement of phase one of the installation of traffic lights at the intersection of the B1 Road and Bahnhof Street.

The European Union (EU) has allocated N$6 million for a three-year project aimed at promoting and protecting the rights of the San communities in Namibia.

A bilateral agreement for the establishment of a one-stop border post to facilitate trade and promote economic growth between Namibia and Zambia was signed last Friday.

Floods and landslides killed at least 24 people in 10 days in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city, authorities said yesterday after an unusually intense start to the rainy season.

Twenty-two people were killed – including 18 Chinese nationals – in a massive fire at a South Korean lithium battery factory, the fire department said yesterday, one of the country’s worst factory disasters in years.