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Namibia on Saturday sent off a woman’s football team to compete at the Special Olympics Unified Cup in the USA.

The new season of the popular Next Ma/Gaisa Star Search competition promises to be bigger and better this year, following a memorandum of understanding, signed on Friday between organisers and the African Institutional Management Services.

An Oviritje music concert in aid of elderly residents of Katutura will take place in Stoke on Trent, England, on 6 August. 

Vivo Energy Namibia, the marketer and distributor of Shell-branded fuels and lubricants, launched its latest partnership in convenience retail innovation last Thursday with the opening of the first FreshStop shop at the Highway Shell service station in Ongwediva in the Oshana region. 

The fourth edition of the Africa Youth in tourism innovation challenge and summit is set to take place in Namibia from 27 to 29 July in Windhoek. 

The first Bitcoin ATM in Namibia is now operational at Maerua Mall in Windhoek via the Crypto Kiosk. A Bitcoin ATM can liquidate crypto currency into cash directly from crypto wallets, and also turns cash into crypto currency, sent directly to crypto wallets . 

The Stampriet Aquifer Uranium Mining Committee, representing the interests of inhabitants of south-east Namibia in the Omaheke region, are concerned proposed uranium extraction methods could potentially harm an aquifer that supplies the only fresh drinking water in the area.

Namwater, which supplies bulk water to local authorities, commercial customers, government institutions, such as ministries, schools and clinics as well as rural communities, held a stakeholders’ engagement in Katima Mulilo on Tuesday under the theme, ‘Unlocking Stakeholder Value’. 

The vice-chairperson of the National Council Victoria Kauma encouraged learners to strive for success, amidst their daily challenges.