Uukwangula — The Oshana regional council and the World Food Programme (WFP) yesterday signed an agreement to help improve food security and nutrition in the region. The agreement was signed at the Nakalega irrigation project at Uukwangula, where the country’s National Food Security and Nutrition Policy was launched in December last year. Speaking at the […]
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Various commentators have lauded parliamentarians in the National Assembly for passing the long-awaited Access to Information Bill. Institute for Public Policy Research director Graham Hopwood yesterday said the passing of the Bill was a “step forward in the country’s democracy”. “We respect the fact that it still has to go through the National Council and […]
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Namibia: Parliament Denies Poor Delivery
The National Assembly has over the last two successive years of 2020 and 2021 tabled 17 Bills of which 10 were passed contrary to a recent media report. This is so, despite the period having been the worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in endless disruptions of activities of institutions including that of […]
Namibian Police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga has refuted allegations that his force committed dirty work for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the alleged theft of US$4 million (about N$61 million) from Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game property, claiming that all data are open and accessible to citizens. Leader of the official opposition McHenry Venaani last week […]
Ongwediva — Swapo vice president and presidential aspirant Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has implored members to have a full understanding of the party’s constitution and to follow its guidelines. “The constitution is put there to guide us, comrades, but people always want to go the other way around the constitution. Meanwhile, there are ways on which it […]
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Southern Africa: Cosafa Cup Fixtures Out
SEYCHELLES and Botswana will kick off the 2022 Cosafa Cup when they clash in a Group A encounter at the King Zwelithini Stadium in Durban, South Africa on 5 July. It will be the start of 23 games in 13 days as the best of the Southern African region – and guest nation Senegal – […]
Deputy prime minister and international relations minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says Namibia should consider getting water from the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She says the water will help boost agriculture. Addressing a Swapo meeting at Ongwediva on Saturday, Nandi-Ndaitwah said the distance from the mouth of the Congo River to Oshikango in […]
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Namibia: Botha Holds On to Mboma
CHRISTINE Mboma is not splitting from her founding coach Henk Botha, the latter maintains. However, his other protégé Beatrice Masilingi is seeking greener pastures, Botha said in a statement yesterday when dispelling reports that he has lost both star sprinters. News that the prodigious pair dumped their mentor for South African coach Hennie Kriel sent […]
POLCE Inspector General Sebastian Ndeitunga says police did not abduct or torture Imanuwela David who is one of the five Namibians suspected of stealing millions from South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. David, Urbanus Shaumbwako, Erkki Shikongo, Petrus Muhekeni and Petrus Afrikaner allegedly broke into Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm and stole US$4 million on 9 February […]
Based on the World Health Organisation’s Covid-19 Resurgence Thresholds, the pandemic in Namibia seems to be under control but continuous monitoring is needed at all levels to ensure that response activities correspond with the phase of resurgence. This was said by health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula at the 44th Covid-19 briefing in the capital yesterday. […]
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Namibia: 11 Rhinos Poached in Two Weeks
The ministry of environment has recorded an alarming number of rhino carcasses in Etosha National Park from the beginning of this month. Eleven black rhinos have been poached in the last two weeks. In total, 22 rhino carcasses were discovered since January. The ministry’s spokesperson, Romeo Muyunda, told New Era that the number has raised […]
Brave Warriors star midfielder Willy ‘Awillo’ Stephanus was a surprise competitor in the Express Credit Futsal Winter League over the weekend when he turned out for Galacticos in a Premier League match against the X Men. Stephanus’ presence did not help Galacticos much as they lost the match 4-1, but he did display some of […]
Newly-appointed Brave Warriors head coach Collin Benjamin yesterday said his tenure at the helm of the national team will not be a one-man show, but will be centred around collective efforts as a team, constant consultations and giving everyone an opportunity to make a contribution. The Fifa-appointed Normalisation Committee for the Namibia Football Association (NFA) […]
Rob Youth Foundation (RYF) has joined hands with International Peace Youth Group (IPYG) to promote basic youth tenets, including peace among the youth in Namibia and beyond its borders. IPYG is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation which believes young people can bring peaceful change in the world. The foundation is premised among similar principles that are […]
Aggrieved community members of the Okondjatu district are up in arms over the constant shoddy construction work executed at the poorly developed village, north east of Okahandja, in the Otjozondjupa region. Some community members raised serious concerns over the habitual awarding of tenders to what they termed fly-by-night construction companies, that seem to be falling […]
The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) on Tuesday confirmed that with an ongoing operation in Etosha National Park, 11 rhino carcasses from the beginning of June to date have been discovered. MEFT spokesperson Romeo Muyunda in a statement said all the 11 were found without horns and they were black rhinos. “Investigations indicate […]
KATIMA MULILO — Ten selected schools in the Zambezi region received material and equipment on Friday valued at about N$400 000 from Nilaleg as part of its tree-planting initiative. The equipment includes 5 000-litre water tanks, wire fence, water pumps, pipes, spades, rakes and seedlings. In a speech read on his behalf by his deputy […]
Eenhana — The Eenhana Town Council has warned street vendors who defy its new policy and continue trading at undesignated points within the town that they will receive heavy fines. The town council will issue a fine of N$2 000 or three months imprisonment to anyone who continues trading in the streets. On Friday, they […]