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The finance ministry on Friday said it takes issues raised by the Namibia Dental Association seriously, and is thus working determinedly to ensure government medical aid reform is delivered within set timeframes.

When finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi presented the mid-term budget last week Wednesday, he was wearing a special green tie in anticipation of the announcement to be made by President Hage Geingob for the preferred bidder to develop the country’s first large-scale vertically integrated green hydrogen project in the Tsau //Khaeb national park.

This is in response to an opinion piece “Are our prisons playing the correctional role?” published in the New Era newspaper of 15  October 2021.

The relationship between politics and media in Namibia is worrisome.

Israeli’s energy and water resources minister Karine Elharrar, who uses a wheelchair, was denied access to the United Nations COP26 climate summit on Monday, 1 November.

We live in a society where human rights are declared as fundamental by everyone. Indeed, human rights are declared as fundamental by law. 

It was a joyous event at the Onandjokwe state hospital as three Namibian doctors restored the sight of 350 citizens last week. 

In the quest to provide adequate health services to the people, the Onandjokwe state hospital is in the process of revamping and rehabilitating old structures.

The home affairs ministry will appeal a recent High Court ruling which declared the son of a same-sex couple born via surrogacy a Namibian citizen by descent in the Supreme Court. 

The national rail service operator TransNamib will commence with a rightsizing process through the voluntary retrenchment of about 340 of its employees.