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Fueling The Recovery: Oil And Gas SMEs Find Support In Namibia’s Loan Scheme
By:Justicia Shipena In Namibia, the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) Economic Recovery Loan Scheme has extended its support to an array of industries, including the crucial oil and gas sector. Acknowledging the significance of this sector in the country’s economy,…
City Authorities Ensure Power Stability, Residents Safe From Disconnection
By:Justicia Shipena The City of Windhoek (CoW) has taken decisive action to assure its residents that no one will face power disconnection. The CoW’s recent assurance of uninterrupted power supply to its residents comes at a time when the municipality…
Nam Advised to Formulate Mining in Wildlife-Concentrated Areas
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The recent three-day National Conference on Human Wildlife Conflict Management has recommended that rural communities take ownership of conservancies and reduce control by non-members. This is included in the summary of the resolutions that were made during the…
Nam Sources Pork Meat From EU Markets
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Meat Board of Namibia said for the first three months of 2023, 68.5% of Namibia pork need was serviced by imports, inclusive of offal and processed products. Tthree-month assessment has revealed, showing the agri opportunities the…
The Untapped Potential: Addressing Namibia’s High Percentage Of Unprocessed Gemstone Exports
By: Justicia Shipena Trade Minister Lucia Ipumbu has expressed sadness over the fact that more than 90% of gemstones leave the country in their unprocessed form, depriving the nation of the economic benefits that could derive from value addition. Ipumbu…
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…
Morocco Partners With Other African Nations On Food Security
By: Sonja Smith The Moroccan Speaker of the House of Councillors, Enaam Mayara, says the Kingdom of Morocco is working on investing with many African countries, in order to enhance continental food security for its citizens. Mayata, was speaking as…
O&L Gets Permit To Construct N$350 Million Solar Park In Germany
By: Staff writer O&L Nexentury GmbH, a subsidiary of the Ohlthaver & List Group, has been granted the advanced water management permit (“gehobene wasserrechtliche Erlaubnis” in German) for the construction and operation of a floating solar photovoltaic park. The…