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...
KATIMA MULILO – President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has sounded the alarm over growing divisions in Namibian society. She warned that the nation risks “a crusade for self-destruction” if citizens fail to unite. Speaking yesterday at the 59th Heroes’ Day Commemoration at the Katima Mulilo Sports Complex in the Zambezi region, the President expressed concern that Namibians...
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,...
Mulisa Simiyasa KATIMA MULILO – War veterans in the Zambezi region recalled the heroic death ofthe first commander of the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) Tobias Hainyeko, who was shot and killed at Katima Mulilo on 18 May 1967. He was killed on 18 May 1967 in an exchange of gunfire, with the enemy...
OPUWO – Kunene regional heads of government departments, traditional leaders, community members and members of the regional council met with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Poverty Eradication, Labour and Industrial Relations on Monday to discuss various projects in the region. The meeting focused on challenges with implementing the initiatives and explored ways to improve them,...
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...