OMUGULUGOMBASHE – A 46-year-old woman died on Thursday after being attacked by a roaming elephant in Omugulugombashe village in the Omusati region. The deceased, Klaudia Mwaala, was allegedly trying to take pictures with the animal when the tragic incident occurred. Mwaala is survived by her husband and four children. A witness, Johannes Paulus, recounted last...
KATIMA MULILO – Masubia Ngambela Raphael Mbala has issued a strong warning over the rapid depletion of fish stocks in the Zambezi River system, calling for urgent, coordinated intervention between traditional authorities and government. Speaking during an interview with New Era this week, Mbala painted a grim picture of collapsing fish stocks in the Zambezi...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said, although Namibia has made strides to promote gender equality and ensure that women take their rightful place in the country’s development, women globally still face challenges that limit their full participation in society. In her International Women’s Day message yesterday, celebrated under the theme, ‘Rights. Justice. Action. For All Women and...
Rudolf Gaiseb Adolf Kaure The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) reported that, in the 2024/25 financial year, 45% of the cases handled involved abuse of power. The next most common issues dealt with by the anti-graft agency included bribery, misuse of public resources, as well as irregularities in tenders and recruitment. The organisation’s recently released financial report...
The country’s Land Acquisition and Development Fund is in deep disarray both financially and materially. Transactions were reclassified without disclosure, and comparative figures between the budget and actual amounts were not properly recorded. Additionally, critical value assessments were not issued in 2025, auditor general Junias Kandjeke has flagged. He highlighted key shortcomings in the Land...
The Ovaherero Traditional Authority faction led by academic Hoze Riruako yesterday met President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at State House. High on their agenda were calls for a quota-based land allocation system for historically dispossessed communities, restitution of ancestral land rights and renewed negotiations with Germany over genocide reparations. Shooting from the hip, Riruako said the meeting...
War isn’t just something the United States of America (USA) wages overseas. It has become an entrenched aspect of that country’s foreign policy, domestic economic production and employment. This extraordinary pattern of perpetual conflict by the USA is not incidental. It has become woven into the very fabric of American economic life because for the...
GOBABEB – A researcher and his pilot from the Gobabeb Research Centre died on Wednesday evening when a light aircraft they were travelling in crashed just kilometres from the centre. The police yesterday identified the deceased as Alan Wilson and Neil Thomas Oakman. When New Era arrived at the scene yesterday morning, instruments of the...
At the centre of monitoring and regulating Namibia’s fuel security and fuel quality is the Ministry of Industries, Mines and Energy, which is mandated to ensure every litre of petrol and diesel imported, stored and sold in the country meets national quality standards. Moses Pakote (MP), the ministry’s executive director, explained to New Era’s Head...
Primary schools have taken up the biggest chunk of the education budget for the 2026/2027 financial year, a whopping 42%. Out of the N$28 billion set aside for education, N$11.8 billion will go to primary education. This is the biggest portion of the budget under Vote 40 – Education, Innovation, Arts and Culture. Education director...