Staff Reporter THE Namibia Power Corporation (NamPower) has announced that Okahandja and surrounding areas have been without power since this morning, 19 March, at 08:06. “NamPower technical personnel are currently on the ground to determine the cause of the outage and to attend to it,” NamPower assured. The national electric power utility company urged the...
Global warming is constantly affecting Namibia’s highly variable rainfall patterns, making every drop of water and wetlands a very important aspect of people’s lives, senior government officials have said. Speaking at the World Wetlands and Water Day, agriculture, water and land reform minister Calle Schlettwein and environment, forestry and tourism minister Pohamba Shifeta emphasised the...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform says it is working to ensure that there is water supply to communities in the Omusati, Oshikoto, and Ohangwena regions, as well as in Daures Constituency in the Erongo Region. The communities have been experiencing challenges with water supply. Tondoro Constituency in the Kavango West Region and...
Niël Terblanché The Zambezi Region of Namibia is home to lions, elephants, hippos, and crocodiles, and has been struggling with an increasing number of human-wildlife conflict situations that result in the loss of livestock, crops, infrastructure, and, tragically, human lives.In this regard, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has stepped in...
The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Co-operative Governance says disaster management teams are currently assisting those affected by heavy rains that have battered parts of the province. Four people died in Mtubatuba, while an unconfirmed number of people have been reported missing. The department’s spokesperson, Siboniso Mngadi, says the storm tore roofs off houses and caused damage...
No fewer than 1 billion persons worldwide are affected with Presbyopia(eye disorder), Dr Tochukwu Onwuzulike, an eye care specialist, has said. Onwuzulike, an Optometrist with Vision Spring, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), disclosed this on Friday in Abuja at the inauguration of free eye care exercise at Apo resettlement, FCT. Presbyopia is an eye condition in...
The Kavango East Region alone consists of 45 schools grappling with overcrowding out of a total of 167 schools. This information was revealed by Knox Otto Imbuwa, the Acting Executive Director of the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, in response to demands made by unemployed teachers in the Kavango West and East regions for...
TRIPOLI, Sept. 19 — The Libyan National Agency for Bridges and Roads said Monday that 70 percent of the infrastructure in the flood-hit areas in eastern Libya was damaged. The Agency said that 50 percent of the roads there were also damaged, and alternative routes opened in the disaster areas to allow traffic. The Ministry...