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I was shocked when I learned that Matti Mwandingi is no more. It sounded surreal.

The Ministry of Gender, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, with assistance from the European Union, inaugurated two early childhood development centres in the Zambezi region last week.

The Mobile Telecommunications Company last week donated four classrooms and a storeroom to Onaushe Combined school in Uuvudhiya constituency, Oshana region, under its Rural Schools Project.

As southern Africa countries continue to wage war against the decades-long trade ban to sell millions worth of ivory stockpiles, a new setback has hit their struggle, as a near total ban on the import, export and dealing of items containing ivory came into force in Britain yesterday.

Providing an update on the mission to the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, in May, President Hage Geingob said it is now time for Namibia to act and deliver.

President Hage Geingob has refused to go into detail on the scandal that erupted in South Africa around that country’s president Cyril Ramaphosa over his role in allegedly covering up the robbery at his Phala Phala farm in February 2020.

The health ministry has confirmed a total of 23 suspected cases of measles that have been reported in the Omusati region early this month.

Environment minister Pohamba Shifeta has hit out at Swapo members who allegedly use social media platforms to attack each other. 

Newly sworn-in Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Maximalliant Katjimune says solving youth unemployment will be one of his top priorities in the National Assembly.

Minister Anna Nghipondoka said education cannot afford to operate in isolation and the collaboration with relevant stakeholders is underway to revive the sector.