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Recently, the international community lauded the Namibian government for its ambitious green energy plan, which aims at solving the country’s increasing electricity demands.

This week, the Parliament of Namibia will hold public hearings to re-engage on the issue of abortion in Namibia. 

First and foremost, I want to express my sincere gratitude towards this newspaper for allowing us some space to air our concern.

It is with great sadness that after more than 30 years of being an independent country, we still experience crises such as the situation the Rundu Town Council finds itself in.

Street vendors are quite an important part of urban economies around the world, offering simple access to different kinds of goods and services in public spaces. 

Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula said maternal and perinatal death rates remain a major challenge, hence the need to invest in skilled care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period.

Police in the Oshana region are investigating a case of rape after it emerged a guardian subjected his 20-year-old orphaned niece to five years of sexual abuse. 

Various farmers’ associations have welcomed the appointment of capital markets expert Raphael Karuaihe as the new CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Namibia.

The Namibia Statistics Agency, as a means of keeping residents’ personal, census-related information confidential, has sworn in 13 field staff, deployed in the //Kharas region last Friday in Keetmanshoop.

Governors from the country’s 14 regions held their first-ever retreat last week in Rosh Pinah to take stock and share realities, experiences and constraints to investigate and share best practices for service delivery.