Hilma Nalupe The Namibia U/21 men’s team will face Spain today in a crucial pool match at the Junior Hockey World Cup in India, a fixture that could determine their progression to the round of 16. The team stands a fair chance of advancing, provided they beat Spain, secure a draw, or avoid a heavy...
Namibia could emerge as one of the prime beneficiaries of a new global initiative following a joint announcement by FIFA and Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) to provide major financial support for sports infrastructure development in poorer nations. Under a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), (roughly N$17.1 billion), in concessional loans to help FIFA...
Sawi Hausiku The Regional Councils and Local Authorities Elections witnessed a surge of independent candidates, a trend political analyst and re-elected independent councillor Paulus Mbangu attribute to a lack of merit-based selection within traditional political party structures. In an interview with Nampa, Mbangu, the Rundu Rural constituency councillor who recently won re-election as an independent...
Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Esperance Luvindao has urged the public to remain calm, saying the health ministry, supported by partners, is implementing full-scale surveillance and response measures across all 14 regions. She made the remarks on Friday as she provided updates on Namibia’s current public health situation, covering measles, Mpox, Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic...
Namibia has called for the international criminalisation of colonialism, saying global law has “deliberately ignored” atrocities committed in Africa and left a glaring accountability gap that must finally be closed. International Relations Minister Selma Ashipala-Musavyi led the delegation to the International Conference on the Crimes of Colonialism in Africa in Algiers, where African and Caribbean...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah yesterday commissioned three national task forces to serve as the main engines to drive the seven priority pillars of the Sixth National Development Plan (NDP6). She described this as a major turning point in how government delivers services and responds to the country’s pressing needs. Speaking at the State House during the...
Elite Namibian cyclists are gearing up for the 21st edition of the Nedbank Desert Dash, which is set to take place from 5 to 6 December. The race, which will cover 401-kilometre (km) across the world’s oldest desert, will start on 5 December at the Grove Mall in Windhoek. It will finish on Saturday, 6...
The Namibia Sport Commission (NSC), acting through the directorate of sport within the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture, on Tuesday settled an amount owed by the Namibia Deaf Sport Federation (NDSF) to a service provider. The federation had accrued a debt of more than N$240 000, placing the return flights of...
Adolf Kaure The Prime Minister’s Charity Foundation was launched in Windhoek last Friday through an inaugural fundraising gala dinner. The foundation was conceived as a strategic mechanism to mobilise financial resources and technical support for institutions struggling to effectively deliver their mandates. Speaking at the gathering, Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare said that many public institutions,...
Community-based associations have emerged as some of the biggest winners in this year’s Local Authority elections, securing multiple seats across several towns and signalling growing voter appetite for community-driven leadership. An analysis of Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) results shows that residents’ associations and ratepayers’ groups performed strongly in at least nine local authorities, challenging...