OMEGA 1 – Despite the difficulties of securing a decent meal daily to feed their impoverished households in the face of minuscule resources, the San community at Omega 1 in Kavango East expressed gratitude towards the government for providing them drought relief food. Living within Bwabwata National Park, the community depends on cultivating fields for...
A four-day extensive training workshop on election reporting for journalists in Namibia is underway at the Namibia Press Agency headquarters in Windhoek. The deputy information minister, Modestus Amutse, officially opened the workshop on Tuesday. He urged journalists to participate fully, take the training seriously and practice the skills and knowledge to impact and accurately inform...
KEETMANSHOOP – The remains of a fully developed baby, concealed in a black rubbish bag, were discovered at the Keetmanshoop dumpsite on Tuesday. Andre Garöeb, who visited the area in search of scrap metal, informed New Era that he found a black plastic bag that he thought had animal intestines. To his shock, when he...
KEETMANSHOOP – A teaching coordinator at the University of Namibia’s southern campus said physical hard files are no longer relevant for student teachers as the recently introduced e-Teaching Practicum files will be the new way of doing their internship. Simon Albin informed regional education stakeholders about the new development during a recent stakeholder engagement seminar....
Rudolf Gaiseb National Democratic Party (NDP) leader Martin Lukato wants the2018 Namibia-Botswana Boundary Treaty nullified. In 2018, the late president Hage Geingob and the former president of Botswana, Ian Khama, signed the historic boundary treaty, which reaffirmed colonial delimitation and clearly outlined the border between the two countries. However, Namibians living along the Chobe and Kwando...
Charles Ndeumane Minister of Urban and Rural Development Erastus Uutoni says he is losing patience with councillors fighting with one another. He was speaking at the handover of the Outapi Town Council services infrastructure. He said they should instead be dedicating themselves to their responsibilities of providing services and fostering development in their towns and...
OMUTHIYA – The body of a 34-year-old mentally challenged Angolan national was on Saturday found hanging from a tree at Onaayamba village in Oshikoto’s Okankolo constituency. The Namibian Police Force crime investigations coordinator for Oshikoto region, Titus Ekandjo, said the victim is from Cuvelai village in Angola, and was employed as a cattle herder at...
SALAMBALA – Community members residing in the Salambala conservancy in Silumbi area of Katima Mulilo Rural constituency fear that the prevailing drought is going to worsen their current water crisis and allege that drought relief distribution in the region is unfair. About 300 community members are fetching water from a private well belonging to one...
THE capital city’s failed attempt at establishing functional bicycle lanes – conspicuous by the remnants of broken cones along the road – is being reviewed as the City of Windhoek intends to replace the botched system with a more robust but still cost-effective alternative. Meanwhile, Horst Heimstädt of the Namibia Road Safety Forum stated the...
While expressing confidence in veteran Kenyan politician Raila Odinga’s candidature for the African Union’s top post, Namibia has elected not to endorse anyone. Odinga, a former Kenyan prime minister, is gunning for chairpersonship of the African Union Commission (AUC). Namibia’s stance was elaborated by the country’s foremost diplomat, international relations minister Peya Mushelenga, following high-level...