Ethiopian Airlines has signed an interline agreement with South African-based airline, Airlink. The agreement will enable passengers to enjoy seamless travel with a single ticket and lower fares between points within the carriers’ synergised networks.
The Peugeot Namibia assembly plant at Walvis Bay has to date sold only 22 vehicles with 131 units still in stock. In addition, the plant has employed 20 locals since its inception in December 2018 with ambitions to employ at least 50 full-time employees.
The overall budget for Namibia’s participation at the Dubai Expo 2020 is N$20 million. This includes the N$15 million advanced from the fiscus and N$5 million sourced from additional funding, including financial contributions received from various entities.
While interest in the factors which contribute to teenage pregnancy in schools and communities in general has proliferated recently, the irony is that very little of the debate on this topic is informed by what boys discuss in their free time about being a man, which influences them to engage in risky sexual activities and ergo teenage pregnancy.
Young people in Namibia are mostly ignored from home, community, school to the state. This is proven by the fact that problems involving young people are not taken seriously. It is either that ineffective measures are taken to apparently address such problems,
Saul’s experience on the road to Damascus can be mistaken for the classic story of repentance: the sinner who senses guilt opens himself to Jesus’s saving grace. But by his own light, and those of his community, Saul, the Jew from Tarsus, was doing no wrong in trying to suppress a descending movement within Judaism. It took Jesus to show him the error of his ways.
In recent years, funding for public higher education institutions has been dwindling, and the adverse effects of this have been there for everyone to see – poor research results, low faculty morale, high staff turnover and compromise on the quality of teaching.
Namibia’s government is pursuing reforms to improve the business environment, attract investment and spur industrialisation. One of the objectives of the NIPDB is to review and propose policy reforms and measures to support trade and investment promotion, conducive labour market policies, improve the country’s competitiveness and the ease of doing business.
In 2017, Namibia acceded to become the 36th African Union member of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). The establishment of the APRM owed courtesy to the acknowledgement that the continent’s failures can only be resolved by African countries through inclusive partnerships between governments, civil society formations and the private sector.
Newly appointed Ombudsman Basilius Dyakugha sat down with New Era’s journalist Maria Amakali to shed light on his journey and plans for his new role.