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Global Cybersecurity Initiative: Unifying Africa via Cybersecurity
By: Hee-Dee Walenga The Global Cybersecurity Initiative (GCI) was officially launched on Thursday morning in Windhoek. The initiative is a Pan-African cybersecurity initiative created by DS Tech Namibia that seeks to connect businesses, governments, and innovators to…
Illegal Industrial Scale Drug Lab Suspects Appear in Court
By: Helmut Mahongo The 13 suspects of a multimillion-rand industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory that operated in the northwest of Johannesburg appeared in court yesterday. The suspects were arrested in May after residents reported strong chemical odours coming from an isolated…
Geology Cannot Be Commanded, and Capital Cannot Ignore Economics
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The government of Namibia, through the Minister of Mines and Energy, Modestus Amutse, has an understanding that it cannot command geology to become commercial or ask capital to ignore economics. Amutse expressed this at the Occasion…
CRAN to Serve as Country’s Root Certification Authority
By: Erastus Andreas Through Namibia’s National Public Key Infrastructure Framework, the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia, CRAN, will serve as the country’s Root Certification Authority (Root CA). The sector regulator will be providing the trust anchor for secure digital…
Namibia Joins SA in Digitising Embedded Generation
By: Hee-Dee Walenga The Electricity Control Board (ECB), in collaboration with GET.transform officially launched an Embedded Generation Online Application Platform intended to digitalise and advance the Electricity Supply Industry of Namibia. Namibia becomes only the third country in Africa…
Lawyer Turns N$200,000 Youth Fund Support Into Law Firm
By: Annakleta Haikera At 27, Naboth De Celestino is challenging the conventional path into Namibia’s legal profession by choosing entrepreneurship over waiting years to establish himself under an existing law firm. With financial assistance of N$200 000 from the…
Capital Punishment for Intentional Forest Fires in Algeria
By: Helmut Mahongo President Abdelmadjid Tebboune of Algeria has issued a directive instructing the justice minister to submit an amendment to the penal code by September 15, introducing capital punishment for anyone convicted of intentionally setting fire to forested…
Road Accidents: A Public-Health, Socio-economic, and Development Crisis
By: Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala The National Council Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Housing has declared the country’s road accidents a national public-health, socioeconomic, and development crisis. The Committee has also attributed driver behaviour as the main cause of accidents. From…
COP17’s Desertification Pledges Reach US$ 1.3 Billion
By: Dwight Links COP17 ended last week in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with pledges to build resilience and combat desertification as well as develop global preparedness for the impacts of drought and declining rainfall taking place. Governments, development banks, funds and…
Southern Africa Braces for Mixed Expectations on Rainfall
By: Dwight Links Southern Africa is in position to have a rainy season below expectations during the October to December 2026 period, according to the Southern Africa Regional Climate Outlook forum’s latest report. Climate experts from the SADC National…