The recent decision by president Donald Trump to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has significant implications for global health, particularly for countries like Namibia which rely on WHO support. The U.S., as WHO’s largest funder, contributes approximately 18% of its overall funding. The withdrawal process, initiated in January 2025, is set to be completed in...
Drug abuse, poverty blamed for Usakos murders … suspect ‘confesses’ to sickening killings
USAKOS – Drug abuse, a cycle of sheer poverty and a moment of madness have surfaced as harbingers to the killings of six family members in cold blood, suspectedly at the hands of their own. “A child raised in the skirt of his grandmother since the age of five doesn’t just wake up and beat her to death with an...
Heeding an ancestral call back home
GAM – “I’ve travelled all over the world. This [Namibia] is home. I want to take all of you [along when I travel] on a big bus, and take you around. “When you are there, you will say, ‘I want to go back home.’ That’s why I say Namibia is the only place we can call home.” These remarks were...
Flood shuts more northern schools … 87 shut down and six classrooms destroyed
Auleria Wakudumo Severe flooding in the northern regions has forced the closure of 87 schools, disrupting learning for over 30 000 learners and destroying six classrooms in the Ohangwena, Omusati and Oshana regions. In the Ohangwena region, ongoing floods have severely disrupted education, affecting 302 schools, with 16 temporarily closed and six schools suspending classes for lower primary grades (grades 0-3). ...
VP jumps onto green hydrogen bandwagon
Vice President Lucia Witbooi wants the speedy finalisation and implementation of a comprehensive national policy and regulatory framework around the country’s booming green hydrogen programme and emerging fossil energy industry. She made the call on the executive team of the Namibia Green Hydrogen Programme (NGHP), led by Green Hydrogen Commissioner James Mnyupe, during a courtesy visit to her office this...
More than N$400m needed to rehabilitate roads
The Roads Authority (RA) plans to spend at least N$230 million to rehabilitate roads damaged by recent heavy rainfall in the Oshana, Ohangwena, Oshikoto, Omusati and Kunene regions. This was revealed by RA CEO, Conrad Lutombi, in an interview yesterday. The restoration work is set to begin on Monday, ensuring that roads are accessible ahead of the upcoming Easter holiday,...
Trade triples under UK commissioner Moore’s tenure
Bilateral trade between Namibia and the United Kingdom has impressively tripled during the four years three-month tenure of outgoing British High Commissioner Charles Moore. This significant economic achievement was revealed on Wednesday during Moore’s farewell meeting with President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at State House, where discussions also touched upon the recent increase in rainfall and the contentious issue of Namibian asylum...
Man nabbed for selling stolen uniforms
ONDANGWA – Petrus Absalom (24), was arrested on Monday after he was allegedly caught red handed selling police uniforms in Ondangwa. Absalom appeared in court yesterday and was denied bail. The matter was postponed to 4 August 2025. Namibia Police Force’s deputy commissioner Fredrik Ndjadila said, the uniforms were reported stolen from a house two months ago. The stolen items...
Hengari trumpets land reform expediting …moots ancestral policy
Lahja Nashuuta Land reform, agriculture and fisheries minister Mac Albert Hengari has set sights on expediting Namibia’s land reform programme while also placing modernisation, mechanisation and sustainability high on the ministry’s agenda. He laid out his vision earlier this week while addressing staff members of the ministry, which platform was used to introduce the minister to the team he will...
Zimbabwe political crisis: chickens coming home to roost
Lahja Nashuuta Zimbabwe’s ongoing political turmoil has been described by many observers as a classic case of “the chickens coming home to roost.” Political parties and analysts have suggested that the alliance between president Emmerson Mnangagwa and vice president Constantino Chiwenga was always a marriage of convenience, one forged to unseat the late Robert Mugabe. Now, with Mnangagwa manoeuvring to...