Maria David PRIMARY schools in Okongo were the recipients of stationery worth N$6,000 from the Okongo Constituency as part of efforts to support government initiatives. A total of 500 learners from Okongo Project School and Olukeno Primary School, located east of the Constituency, benefited from this initiative. Okongo Constituency Councillor Efraim Shipindo stated that 200...
Justice minister Yvonne Dausab did not give legal aid lawyer Eva Maria Phillemon a proper hearing before deciding, in the wake of remarks Phillemon made about Damara people, to withdraw her appointment as legal aid counsel in April last year, a Windhoek High Court judge has decided. The decision that Dausab made about Phillemon’s status...
Justice minister Yvonne Dausab’s decision to withdraw the appointment of a legal aid lawyer in the wake of remarks she made about Damara people has been reviewed and set aside by a High Court judge. The withdrawal of Eva Maria Phillemon’s appointment as legal aid counsel was set aside by judge Orben Sibeya in a...
The US says it airdropped 36,000 meals into northern Gaza on Tuesday in co-ordination with Jordan – the second such joint mission in recent days. It came a day after the World Health Organization said children were dying of starvation in the north, where an estimated 300,000 Palestinians are living with little food or clean...
US Vice-President Kamala Harris says people in Gaza “are starving” and has urged Israel to “significantly increase the flow of aid” there. She said “there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks”, which would “get the [Israeli] hostages out”. Earlier, Israel did not attend truce talks in Egypt, saying Hamas...
The US Senate has approved a long-awaited $95bn (£75.2bn) aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after months of political wrangling. While Democrats were in favour of passing the bill, Republicans were divided and previously voted it down. The package includes $60bn for Kyiv, $14bn for Israel’s war against Hamas and $10bn for humanitarian aid...
In Gaza, a strip of land fast becoming a wasteland, few international aid bodies can still operate. The United Nations is one of them. Its Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA, was founded in 1949, working in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, caring for the 700,000 Palestinians who were...
Hertta-Maria Amutenja Commissioner-General Raphael Tuhafeni Hamunyela recently oversaw the launch of the Community Service Orders (CSO) program at the Karasburg Magistrates’ Court and Ariamsvlei Periodical Court. This initiative marks a significant step in justice reform. A review of data from the 2020/2021 to 2022/2023 financial years revealed that 62 offenders breached their release conditions over...
Oshana Governor Elia Irimari says the persistent drought has a significant negative impact on families in urban centres within his region and that they too deserve to get food aid to help them get through the drought. Against this background, the Oshana Regional Council found it fit to hand over food parcels valued at N$135,000...
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has appealed for $4.2bn in humanitarian aid for Ukraine in 2024. The UN agency called on Monday for donors to provide the funds to support Ukrainian communities and refugees, as the war sparked by Russia’s invasion nears its second anniversary. “Hundreds of thousands of...