The Debmarine–Namdeb Foundation recently inaugurated two Seabird Emergency Units in Oranjemund and Lüderitz. One of the environmental goals of the foundation is to conserve seabirds on the Namibian coast and in its marine exclusive economic zone, with emphasis on the most threatened species.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with Namibia’s Ministry of Industrialisation and Trade (MIT), last week facilitated an information sharing and capacity building event on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).
Many of you will have read the government’s response to Professor Mutjinde Katjiua’s comments on the social media clip seen by some. In rebukes carried on the front page of last Thursday’s New Era newspaper, Professor Katjiua’s remarks are variously labelled as misleading, non-factual, divisive and irresponsible. In another statement, these comments are labelled as empty, toxic tribalist rhetoric.
For decades, the majority of Western media has been reporting that China is a country with no respect to her people, lacks innovation, pursues economic growth at the expense of the environment, and that its political system, cultural dimensions and economic models are outdated and wrong. The West would not appreciate most of China’s initiatives in national development.
The independence of the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), political boundaries and non-compliance by some political parties to the Code of Conduct, are some of the major challenges that are hampering the activities of the commission.
Water at the villages of Otjozondjima and Omawejozonjanda in the Epukiro constituency, Omaheke region is unfit for human consumption, the Landless People’s Movement (LPM) has discovered.
The ministry of education in the Omaheke region continues to enjoy support from external bodies to provide access to quality education for all. Recently, the Outjenaho group handed over a completed dining hall to the tune of N$2.4 million at the Morukutu Primary School to the ministry of education and the Otjijarua community.
The executive director in the ministry of information, Audrin Mathe, has said it is an obligation on everyone to communicate timely, including public officials, as communication is important in government services.
The struggles to access information technology that learners and teachers of Festus Gonteb Primary School has endured for years is now something of the past, as the school became recipients of 18 computers from Basil Read Mining Namibia.
A 36-year-old man who was acquitted of kidnapping and raping his former girlfriend will only serve two years imprisonment for assaulting her. On Friday, High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku sentenced Herman de Klerk to three years imprisonment...