Category: National
Fix Your Poor Infrastructure To Have Effective Trade Among Africa, Venaani Tells African Leaders
By:Justicia Shipena Namibia’s member of parliament and deputy Chairperson of the Pan-African Parliament Committee on Trade, Customs and Immigration McHenry Vennani underscored the critical need to unlock and unbundle the barriers, such as infrastructure, that impede trade between African states….
African Leaders, Allow Citizens To Hold You Accountable: Justice Minister Dausab
By:Staff writer Namibian Justice minister, Yvonne Dausab has called on African leaders to allow citizens to hold them accountable in their respective countries. Addressing the Pan African Parliament (PAP) in Midrand in Johannesburg, Dausab says often leaders must raise concerns…
Harnessing Innovation: Collaborative Project Empowers Namibia’s Agricultural Sector For Food Security
By:Staff Writer The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the University of Maryland (UMD)/NASA Harvest, will collaborate on an agricultural project in Namibia. With funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance,…
Protecting Namibia’s Blue Wealth: Expanding Protected Areas in Marine and Coastal Zones
By:Justicia Shipena Namibia has declared more than 10% of its coastal and marine ecosystems as protected areas, said deputy Minister of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, Heather Sibungo. She said this during the commemoration of International Day for Biological Diversityat Gibeon…
Former Saga Seafood Fishermen Still Waiting On Ministry For Work
By: Martin Johannes About 210 former employees of Saga Seafoods are appealing to government to hasten the process of securing them jobs by giving out quotas to other companies that are in operation in order to employ them. Saga Seafood…
Schlettwein Mulls Over Dream Of The Noordoewer/Vioolsdrift Dam
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus If all goes well, and feasibility studies find it viable, the //Kharas region will have a fourth dam to capture more of the transboundary-shared water as distributed by the lower part of the Orange River, near Noordoewer….
Transparency in Governance: IPPR Insists on Release of Ernst & Young Namibia Report on TransNamib Probe
By: Justicia Shipena The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has demanded that Finance Minister Ipumbu Shiimi release a report by Ernst & Young Namibia (EY) on a TransNamib probe into mismanagement and governance. The proposal was made by IPPR…
Nam Using 2015 Tourism Survey Data To Make Decision – NSA
By: Staff writer The country needs to be capacitated in collecting tourism statistics as the country is currently using outdated data to make decisions. This was revealed by Abel Sindano, Executive Economics Department at the National Statistics Agency (NSA). Sindano…
Challenges On The Frontier For Resettled Farmers
By;Staff Writer Farmers who have been moved through the government’s resettlement programme to address land redistribution continue to face a slew of obstacles. Lack of training, paucity of water, insufficient money, limited farming implements, and bush encroachment are only a…
Supreme Court Same-Sex Ruling Doesn’t Change Marriage Laws
By:Hertha Ekandjo The Supreme Court on Tuesday recognised same-sex marriages between citizens and foreign spouses contracted abroad. This judgement, according to lawyer Halwendo Nafimane, does not mean that same-sex spouses can buy property as one, or inherit each other’s properties…