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KATIMA MULILO – Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani on Sunday promised to create jobs for the country’s unemployed and turn around the economy as he seeks to attract voters ahead of the national elections. Venaani was addressing a packed Katima Mulilo sports complex as he launched his party’s election manifesto, to the delight of...
NKURENKURU – About 26 community and church leaders from various villages in the Kavango West region received training to combat gender-based violence. The training was facilitated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and funded by Reach Namibia Project. The workshop was held from Monday to Thursday last week in Nkurenkuru. The project...
RUNDU – Urban and rural development deputy minister Evelyn !Nawases-Taeyele said government, alongside stakeholders, have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to address housing challenges in Namibia. The deputy minister said this during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Shack Dwellers Housing Project at Katjinakatji, a village between Rundu and Mururani along the Rundu-Grootfontein road. It is in the Mankumpi...
MUSESE – In the spirit of advancing education through technology, local companies, the Namib Desert Diamonds (Namdia) Foundation and African Meat Suppliers recently donated IT equipment and chairs to schools in the Kavango West region. Namdia donated 25 desktop computers, four laptops, five printers and a projector to Olavi Sivhute Kangumbe Combined School in the...
RUNDU – Erstwhile police officer Nico Poniso Mulonda can breathe a sigh of relief after the High Court found that his dismissal was unprocedural. He was discharged from the Namibian Police Force on 1 December 2022 after it was alleged that while off-duty, he was seen on the night of 24 June 2021 at a...
NKURENKURU – Not far from the site where Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah last Thursday refused to preside over a planned groundbreaking ceremony, an even bigger delivery question stared officials and politicians in the face. Before the VP took to the podium, Kavango West governor Sirkka Ausiku made the audience aware that the location where the civic...
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...