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The Ministry of Urban and Rural Development has allocated N$2.1 million to the Oshana Rural Development Project for the 2023/2024 financial year.

The Rundu Town Council has failed to follow the Minister of Urban and Rural Development Erastus Uutoni’s 2022 directive to formalise the controversial Tumweneni area. 

The Legacy Landscapes Fund (LLF) has contributed N$924 million to support the conservation area of the Skeleton Coast-Etosha bridge in north-western Namibia through an agreement signed at Otjondeka in the Kunene region.

ONE of the people accused of the murder of Walvis Bay businessman Hans-Jorg Möller yesterday flatly denied that he was in Walvis Bay on the night of the horrific incident.

The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) said it has so far completed major phases of the 2023 Population and Housing Census since its commencement on 18 September last year.

The Auditor General (AG) has lamented the lack of proper financial control and accounting systems in place at the Marine Resources Fund over three years.

Deputy director of marginalised communities in the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare, Rebekka Namwandi has encouraged members of marginalised communities to stay in one place to ensure that they receive their quarterly food allocations.

KATIMA MULILO - Malaria continues to be a grave health concern in the Zambezi region with a whooping 7 264 positive cases reported from the first week of 2023 to the third week of 2024.

Whether this year’s Presidential and National Assembly elections will live up to its billing remains to be seen, but for spectators and analysts alike, it will be a tight contest that will separate pretenders from contenders. 

The Office of the Prime Minister has urged members of the public to refrain from buying drought relief items but to rather notify the Namibian Police of any suspicious sales of such food in their areas.