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RUNDU - Executive Director in the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp says N$3.6 million will be spent on a dignity project whereby not only girls will benefit from sanitary pads but boys will also get to buy soap and other sanitary products to improve their hygiene.

OSHAKATI – University students in the north have threatened to mobilise other voters not to cast their votes in the upcoming polls after 12 000 students were not given NSFAF funding.

WINDHOEK - Ndonga Linena Constituency Councillor Petrus Kavhura says he is much disturbed and disappointed by the decision of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) to close down the Ndiyona satellite offices that serve three constituencies, namely Ndiyona, Ndonga-Linena and Mashare. 

WINDHOEK – The Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi has sent his condolence message to his Namibian counterpart, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, on the death of the former vice-president Dr Nickey Iyambo who died on May 19 following an illness.

Recurrent droughts have severely affected both the inhabitants and livestock in Opuwo and the situation is so grim the Opuwo Rural Constituency Councillor, Kazeongere Tjeundo, is appealing for the immediate release of the constituency’s share of drought relief.

The Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Anna Shiweda, has advised community leaders in Ohangwena to avoid the “silo mentality” and instead adopt holistic, inclusive, regional development strategies.

Despite being one of the busiest border posts in Namibia with over 20 000 arrivals in a single month and raking in over N$30 million in revenue collection for state coffers last year alone, Wenela in the Zambezi Region remains inadequately resourced.  

The community of Neu Sommerau government resettlement farm near Kombat will from now on take less time travelling long distances to fetch water after a Chinese company spent N$3 million to construct a gravel road for this rural community.

Chinese Ambassador to Namibia, Zhang Yiming, has reiterated that China, the world’s fastest-growing economy, enjoys a strong and sound political and economic relationship with Namibia.

The Directorate of Education, Arts and Culture under Adult Education awarded over 90 graduates their certificates after they completed their Adult Upper Primary Education (AUPE) and Family Literacy Programme (FLP) courses.