National

The education ministry has assured parents that it will continue to pay for security services, but will reduce the number of guards per school.

The Oshana region has successfully placed all its learners, except for 131 Grade 1 learners who are expected to find classrooms today.

Namibia has a successful cervical cancer screening programme that is estimated to save over 500 lives each year. The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) recommends that all women infected with HIV should be screened at yearly intervals irrespective of age. 

The 8th FOCAC Ministerial Conference was successfully held in November 2021. Both China and Africa agreed that due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and changes in the global development pattern, the world has entered a new period of development and China-Africa cooperation has also entered a new stage. 

Despite NamWater releasing 400 cubic metres of water per second last weekend from the Naute Dam outside Keetmanshoop, catchment areas further down south has not been affected yet.

Three babies under the age of one year have succumbed to Covid-19. 

The Monte Christo road to Ongos Valley, which is being upgraded to a dual carriageway, has been considered one of the main contributors to the suffering of losses due to flash floods in the Moses //Garoeb constituency. 

McHenry Venaani has warned government of a looming humanitarian crisis among the landless, whose makeshift riverbed homes have been flooded this week. 

As the curtain comes down on the year 2021, New Era Sport would like to take you, our esteemed reader, down memory lane as we reflect on all the good, the bad and the ugly of the local sports fraternity.

As it stands, internationally-acclaimed sprinter Christine Mboma might have set the scene alight and is currently the talk of town, and rightly so. The vastly populated north-eastern town of Rundu has never been short of high-profile sport personalities.