OKONGO– As the country commemorates Heroes’ Day yesterday, residents of Okongo expressed mixed feelings about what freedom means to them. For Okongo regional councillor Efraim Shipindo, Heroes’ Day serves as a powerful reminder of the men and women who paid the ultimate price to free Namibia. He described the occasion as an opportunity to honor...
ONGWEDIVA – Several peri-urban areas have been successfully electrified over the past two decades, Oshakati Premier Electric (OPE) CEO Nelson Sheya has said. During a stakeholder engagement held on Monday at the Ongwediva Trade Fair Centre, the CEO shared that the electrification includes 660 erven at Uupindi North and South in 2004 and 320 erven...
OKONGO – In Okongo, what others discard as waste is a daily meal for the San community. Once proud hunter-gatherers, the San have been forced into deep poverty after losing access to their traditional lands. Today, they rely on government food relief, handouts, and odd jobs just to get by. Katarina Kamiti’s story reflects the...
Rudolf Gaiseb The World Economic Forum has ranked mis- and disinformation as a leading global risk and will remain an immediate threat spanning the next two years. The Forum envisages this may globally fuel instability and undermine trust in governance, complicating the urgent need for cooperation to address shared crises. Africa’s policymakers, scientists, media professionals,...
ONGWEDIVA – President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah said she is happy to learn that 60% of this year’s exhibitors at Ongwediva Annual Trade Fair (OATF) are youth, while 70% are women. She stated that these are not just figures, but a testimony of the trade fair’s empowerment of women and young people in shaping their economic future....
Lahja Nashuuta Omusati region has completed 90% of its developmental projects for the 2024/2025 financial year, focusing on water infrastructure, urban housing, and education. Omusati regional governor Immanuel Shikongo confirmed this progress in an interview with New Era this week. For the 2024/2025 financial year, Omusati region received N$332.823 million to execute development projects aimed...
Mulisa Simiyasa KONGOLA – Located about 121 kilometres south of Katima Mulilo in the Zambezi region, the site of the former Kamenga military base stands as a powerful reminder of Namibia’s liberation struggle.Once a South African Defence Force installation, Kamenga was a key battleground in the eastern and southern Zambezi, witnessing fierce clashes between the...
Charmaine Boois MARIENTAL – The Mariental Municipality has, since last month, been relocating informal settlers to properly designated erven to formalise years of illegal land occupation. The municipality’s Community Liaison Officer, Domingo Matesu, in a recent interview, informed Nampa that the residents being relocated had settled on municipal land illegally since 2012, with some erven...
Rudolf Gaiseb The Commonwealth Youth Ecosystem Stakeholders are pushing for the inclusion of mental health and well-being curricula in schools to foster resilience from an early age. The stakeholders stipulate in the Windhoek Declaration, scribed during the first Consultative Dialogue, the importance of integrated school-based and university-based mental health programmes. They want these programmes to...
Taimi Haihambo ONGULUDHIYA – Seventy-six-year-old Reinhold Hensel left Germany nine years ago and settled in the Omusati region with one goal – that of transforming farming into a business and helping the community. While many of his old friends in Germany chose to spend retirement fishing by the sea, Hensel decided to follow his lifelong...