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Popular Democratic Movement’s Kazeongere Tjeundo has tabled a motion for parliament to discuss and seek redress to the high levels of multidimensional poverty recorded in the five regions.

Independent Patriots for Change member and teacher Abednego ‘Bishop’ Hishoono has taken an indefinite break from social media after he was successfully sued by First Lady Monica Geingos. 

Advisors of the Benguela Current Commission’s Marine Spatial Management and Governance Project are questioning how Namibian Marine Phosphate got hold of a map that was supposed to only be in the hands of senior government officials.

The Namibian College of Open Learning recently awarded 41 students with scholarships to improve their grades, including 10 inmates from the Windhoek Correctional Facility.

An expert who has worked on social protection programmes in over 40 countries says Namibia can afford the basic income grant.

Works minister John Mutorwa is fighting to ensure that construction work at the Satotwa Primary School is not hindered by the lack of an access road to the site. 

The City of Windhoek has urged residents to use water sparingly as the capital’s reservoirs may reach critically low levels following damage to a NamWater pipeline a fortnight ago. 

A mother suing health authorities for allegedly causing the death of her three-month-old infant after a vaccine shot in 2015, will only hear judgement in the matter in July this year. 

President Hage Geingob, in his New Year’s message, declared 2022 as Namibia’s ‘Year of Reimaging’, encouraging the nation to form “a new and different mental picture” by thinking differently and “moving forward with renewed enthusiasm and vision”.

Namibia is experiencing a rapid urbanisation rate, with a large influx of migrants flocking to urban areas for better living conditions and opportunities.