Lahja Nashuuta As Namibia prepares for Regional and Local Authorities Elections on 29 November 2025, the ECN confirmed it will adhere to the 2014 boundaries. The commission stressed that it is legally bound to operate under the current framework until the official report is gazetted. ECN spokesperson Siluka De Wet confirmed the decision in an...
Auleria Wakudumo For decades, residents of Eshii village in Ohangwena’s Epembe constituency trekked up to 10 kilometres in search of clean water, often sharing contaminated sources with animals. That struggle came to an end on Sunday, when the community celebrated the drilling of a new borehole that now delivers reliable, safe water directly to them—a...
Taimi Haihambo OKAKU – Residents of Okaku village in the Oshana region have raised alarm over an increase in scamming cases targeting senior citizens. They accused the police and mobile operator MTC of failing to protect them from fraudsters. During a community engagement meeting held last week, several elderly residents shared painful experiences of losing...
NEW YORK – United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has urged world leaders to take concrete steps to end conflicts. This is as the world marks the International Day of Peace yesterday. Speaking ahead of the UN General Assembly’s high-level debate, which begins in New York this week, Guterres said peace is more urgent than...
WALVIS BAY – Restrained Walvis Bay Rural constituency councillor Florian Donatus has raised concern over confidential police matters that may have been improperly leaked to the media. This is after he has been directly linked to an unauthorised spending of over N$116 000 at Metro Swakopmund. The alleged discrepancy was detected after Metro Swakopmund requested...
Patrons at all Block House steak restaurants in Germany can dine on Namibian beef. The meat is globally renowned for exceptional quality, prized for being free-range, grass-fed and sustainably produced in the country’s vast natural farmlands. As of Saturday, Namibian rumpsteak is being featured as a monthly special at the Block House steak restaurants, which...
KATIMA MULILO – The Namibian Agronomic Board (NAB) has committed N$250 million over the next five years to drive its Crop Value Chain Development Strategy (2025–2030). The plan, anchored on four pillars – sector development, operational excellence, regulatory strength, and research and innovation – places agro-processing at the heart of Namibia’s agricultural growth. Hubertus Hamm,...
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah will use her maiden address to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to call for stronger global unity, the defence of peace and multilateralism. The President told journalists ahead of her departure to New York that Namibia will use the global platform to call for collective action in defending peace. She touched...
OUTAPI – Hundreds of mourners gathered in the Omusati region over the weekend to lay to rest Ras Sheehama, whose music inspired generations and carried the nation through its darkest and brightest moments. Sheehama died on 5 September 2025 in Windhoek, reportedly after taking his own life. He was laid to rest two weeks later,...
Auleria Wakudumo ONAMEGA – Governor of the Ohangwena region, Kadiva Hamutumwa, has expressed concern that many rural youths are missing out on government opportunities such as the Youth Development Fund due to a lack of knowledge and guidance. Speaking during her visit to the Uukwambi Traditional Authority’s chief, Ndilimani Herman Iipumbu, at his homestead in...