NKURENKURU – The Kavango West Regional Council has constructed close to 100 rural toilets spread across different constituencies during the 2023/2024 financial year. The council has set aside a further N$2.3 million for the rural sanitation programme this year. “As previously reported, the council continues to implement the rural sanitation programme. However, more budget allocation...
RUNDU – In an effort to safeguard Namibia’s plant health and ensure food security, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in partnership with the ministry of agriculture, recently launched the country’s first plant health clinic at Rundu in the Kavango East region. The clinic is at Rundu’s Kaisosi agriculture extension centre. FAO has invested about...
NKURENKURU – Patron of the Nkurenkuru Annual Expo, former president Hifikepunye Pohamba, has called on investors to invest in the river town, where investment opportunities are abundant. Areas for possible investment include retail, accommodation, property development, shopping malls and urban agriculture. The expo, which was officially opened yesterday, started on Friday and ends on Sunday....
RUNDU – The government, through NamWater, commenced on Monday with the N$665 million conventional water purification plant at Rundu. The project, once completed, is expected to iron out potable water scarcity issues not only in Rundu, but also in areas outside the town’s boundaries. The project will also take water 10km to Mupini village along...
RUNDU – Over 1 200 villagers at Maputa received national documents during a recent mass registration of national documents. Broken down, a total of 146 birth certificates, 107 identity cards (IDs), 12 data updates, and two changes of image on IDs were issued, while 1 028 stateless persons were attended to, bringing the total number...
RUNDU – The Zambezi Regional Council has started disbursing over N$16 million to residents for a swathe of land at the recently proclaimed settlement of Kongola, which has been designated for development. “The regional council is mandated to undertake regional development through township establishments. Therefore, with the declaration of Kongola as a settlement, major activities...
Rundu – Ndango zodoropa zaBukalo kavatulire mepulisiro vatunge evango lyokatomeno lyoyimaliwa yokusika konomiliyuna N$145 eli nalikara asi evango lyokwantyani lyomutaro lyokatomeno pevango lyevhu lyokusika ponomusunda ntano devhu omu navaruganena nyama zonkunkutu, omu vana kuyimona asi tavakaretesapo yirugana, yimo ngoso ana kutanta nguuru gomukunda Zambezi Lawrence Sampofu posiruwo sokugava mbudi zendi katambeserere kovatungimo womomukunda ngwendi moune...
Zambezi region governor Lawrence Sampofu, during his recent state of the region address (SORA), said the region is working towards meeting its basic human needs through different offices, ministries and government agencies to provide services to residents of the region. Sampofu said, through his office, there have been some development programmes funded in partnership with...
RUNDU – Fraudsters have been using cellphone texts purported to be that of the Kavango West regional governor Sirkka Ausiku to defraud several elites across the country who got tricked into sending money thinking they are assisting the governor supposedly in distress. The scam involves sending texts to victims claiming the governor is stranded and...
RUNDU – The Bukalo Village Council has approved the construction of the N$145 million modern meat processing plant on a five-hectare piece of land where a dry meat processor, meat boilers and several other meat products would be processed, thereby creating much-needed jobs, revealed the Zambezi region governor Lawrence Sampofu during his state of the...