Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

A new electronic funds transfer (EFT) system has been gradually introduced into the domestic market, with all stakeholders in the banking industry collaborating on the wide-ranging impacts that ultimately stand to benefit banking clients.

 Infertility is a global health problem characterised by failure to achieve a pregnancy.

The 2021 UNAIDS Global AIDS Update, launched last week, has rightly pointed out that addressing inequality and inequity are key amongst the issues that need to be urgently addressed over the next decade, which could arguably be the last frontier of the global response to HIV and AIDS.

The Tsumeb municipality has been ordered to pay an outstanding amount of N$3.72 million to Enviro-Fill Namibia (EFN), a company that was contracted to provide waste management services to the local authority between 2009 and 2014.

The upearthing of some of the schools in flood prone areas of the Zambezi region, namely Nankuntwe, Muzii and Mpukano will soon start. 

A man, who was on trial for attacking his girlfriend and her grandmother with a panga at Okashopashopa village in the Etayi constituency of Omusati region, was found guilty of her death and assault on the elderly woman. 

Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula said Namibia is yet to receive an official confirmation on the donation of AstraZeneca vaccine doses by the Netherlands authorities.

A bail appeal by three men accused of smuggling rhino horns failed in the Oshakati High Court when acting Judge David Munsu dismissed their appeal against the refusal of bail, by the Opuwo magistrate’s court. 

A leading political commentator has urged government to consider placing a moratorium on state and official funerals, as rising deaths, mostly attributed to Covid-19, have seen the authorities overspending the allocated budget by N$5 million. 

A hostel facility at Otjinene in Omaheke that has been lying idle has been converted into an isolation shelter to help treat Covid-19 patients in one of the hard-hit regions.