The City of Windhoek is on the brink of declaring a Category D Severe Water Scarcity, following an alarming announcement by Dieter Tolke, Engineering Technician: Water at the City of Windhoek. Despite the declaration of Category C Water Scarcity in June 2023, the city is now facing an even more severe water crisis in line...
THE African Women in Media Conference (AWiM23), which took place on 1 December, adopted the Kigali Declaration on the Elimination of Gender-Based Violence ((GBV) in and through media. The declaration addresses GBV in news media content and media organisations across the African continent. It highlights the influential role of the media in shaping public perceptions...
SWAKOPMUND: The seventh Africa Sanitation and Hygiene Conference expressed concern about the number of Africans who still lack access to safely managed sanitation and basic hygiene services. Attendees of the conference, which started Monday and ended Friday, also noted the fast-fading aspiration to achieve the Africa Water Vision of “an Africa where there is an...
Africa has regressed in attaining commitments made in the 2008 Declaration on Accelerating the Achievement of Water and Sanitation Goals. This is according to Namibia’s Minister of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, Calle Schlettwein, who officially opened the 7th Africa Sanitation and Hygiene Conference at Swakopmund. The five-day conference is a platform for technical and...
The Vice Chairman of the International Democratic Union (IDU) and leader of the Popular Democratic Movement, McHenry Venaani, has also expressed concern over Israel’s declaration of war against Hamas in the region. In a statement, Venaani emphasised the distressing and worrisome nature of the ongoing conflict. Venaani stressed that a lasting path to peace and...
Staff Reporter WINDHOEK, Sept. 27 — Namibia’s diamond industry reached a historic milestone as NAMDIA, the Namib Desert Diamonds (Proprietary) Limited Company, declared its highest dividend ever during the launch of its Annual Report for the financial year 2022/2023. Esteemed guests and stakeholders gathered at the Droombos on September 27, 2023, to celebrate NAMDIA’s exceptional...
The World Health Organization head, Tedros Ghebreyesus has welcomed Wednesday’s “historic” commitment by global leaders on the approval of a political declaration on pandemic prevention in New York. The post WHO welcomes declaration on pandemic prevention first appeared on Future Media. Source link