…as water challenges persist With water challenges having plagued the Oshikoto region for years, due to either low pressure or water which is unfit for human and animal consumption, the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform says the matter is receiving attention. Potable water in the region has for many years been a dream...
If only agriculture enjoyed the attention it deserved, Namibia might not experience malnutrition deaths and hunger-related ills. There is an Argentinian quote that eloquently sums up the importance of agriculture: “At least once in a lifetime one needs a doctor, a lawyer, an architect – but every day, three times a day, one needs food!”...
BRUSSELS, Oct. 12 — As the world’s attention shifted to Israel, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Brussels on Wednesday to ask Western countries to continue their aid to Ukraine. “We spoke about priorities for Ukraine, for defending how to survive during this next winter,” Zelensky told reporters before attending a meeting with NATO defence...
A Nigerian author and novelist, Gbenga Sokefun, has called on African leaders to beam searchlight on human trafficking of the male child. Sokefun, the author of a fiction, “Adigun”, in a release made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Lagos said that trafficking of the African male child had received...
The Secretary of the National Assembly, Lydia Kandetu, has assured the Namibian National Association of the Deaf (NNAD) that their demands for the recognition of sign language will receive the necessary attention. Kandetu said this while receiving the petition from the association in Windhoek on Thursday. The association held a demonstration from the Regional Police...
Landless People’s Movement (LPM) MP Henny Seibeb presented a motion to look into the difficulties encountered by small-scale miners in the Erongo Region. The motion calls for increased recognition and support of the small miners. Seibeb’s motion provides a comprehensive account of the challenges confronting small-scale miners, whose operations play a crucial role in the...
Bags of maize, cooking oil and dry fish were donated to the Omaheke Region by Deepsea Consolidated Investment, a fully Namibian-owned integrated business that operates in fishing, agronomy and the frozen food industry through their own dry fish processing operations. Deepsea’s Director Mr. Draghoender said as a business they realize that food insecurity is one...