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Swakop Municipality to lease mobile toilets to DRC informal settlement residents
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Swakop Municipality to lease mobile toilets to DRC informal settlement residents

By Adolf Kaure. The Swakopmund Municipal Council will provide 50 private mobile toilets on a rental basis to the DRC informal residents after a motion to implement the project was passed during the latest ordinary council meeting. This comes after the unhygienic sanitation situation in the DRC informal settlement came to Council’s attention. According to...

Former DRC president among Geingob mourners
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Former DRC president among Geingob mourners

Dignitaries, including the former President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, visited the residence of the late President Hage Geingob and expressed condolences to his widow, Monica Geingos, and children. The mood continues to be sombre at Casa Rosalia as the family of the late President Geingob comes to terms with his passing. DRC’s...

Multi-million dollar ‘private’ school for Swakop’s DRC
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Multi-million dollar ‘private’ school for Swakop’s DRC

Tucked away in one of Namibia’s largest informal settlements, Swakopmund’s DRC, is the German-funded Open Doors Education Centre (Odec), a private school operating under the auspices of the Tangeni Shilongo Namibia Association, offering an affordable education at just N$180 per child. Founder and director of the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Volkan Sazli started as a volunteer...

DRC: SADC-Truppen sollen Offensive starten
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DRC: SADC-Truppen sollen Offensive starten

© Contributed In der Demokratischen Republik Kongo sollen SADC-Truppen nun das lokale Militär im Kampf gegen die M23-Rebellen unterstützen. Wie die Nachrichtenagentur AFP berichtet, seien die Soldaten aus Südafrika, Tansania und Malawi bereits im Dezember in der kongolesischen Region North Kivu eingetroffen. Sie sollen dort an einer Offensive zur Rückeroberung von Gebieten teilnehmen, die durch...

Präsident der DRC wird wiedergewählt
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Präsident der DRC wird wiedergewählt

iStock Präsident Hage Geingob hat dem Präsidenten der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, Félix Tshisekedi, zu seiner Wiederwahl gratuliert. Dies sagte Geingob am Montag in einer Medienerklärung. Die Wahlen in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo am 20. Dezember umfassten Präsidentschafts-, Parlaments-, Provinz-, Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen. Geingob erklärte, dass beide Staatsoberhäupter gemeinsam an der Förderung eines integrierten und wohlhabenden...

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Geingob congratulates re-elected DRC President

WINDHOEK: President Hage Geingob has extended a congratulatory message to Félix Tshisekedi Tshilombo following his re-election as president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday. Geingob, in his message shared with the media on Monday, said he is looking forward to continue working with Tshisekedi to strengthen bilateral relations between Namibia and DRC....

The DRC election candidate who refuses to give up
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The DRC election candidate who refuses to give up

In certain circles, the name Martin Fayulu has become synonymous with tenacity and a refusal to give up. One of the leading opposition candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 20 December presidential election, he maintains that he won the race five years ago. Emblematic of the 67-year-old’s die-hard attitude is his biography on X,...