The U.S. Embassy in Windhoek last week underwent a historic transition, marking the closure of the familiar diplomatic outpost on 14 Lossen Street and the formal opening of the new embassy on 38 Metje Street. The symbolic lowering of the American flag and the removal of the Great Seal at the old U.S. Embassy on...
Niël Terblanché Gondwana Collection Namibia, the country’s leading private tourism operator, has initiated an exciting construction project for its car rental service, Namibia2Go, near Windhoek’s Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA). This exciting development was announced during a groundbreaking ceremony last Friday, signaling a significant step forward with the facility’s expected opening in September 2024. Namibia2Go,...
RUNDU: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday donated a mobile storage unit to the Divundu Correctional Facility in the Kavango East Region, to enhance food storage. In a joint media statement issued here on Saturday WFP Country Director Dr George Fedha said with a combined storage capacity of 450 metric tonnes, the...
The World Food Organisation (WFO) has donated a mobile storage facility to the Divundu Correctional Facility in Kavango East. The correctional facility has been without a proper harvest storage facility for the past 27 years. The Divundu Correctional Facility is one of the Namibia Correctional Service’s largest crop-producing farms. Here, inmates get to polish up...
Niël Terblanché Immanuel Mulunga, the suspended Managing Director of Namcor, along with several other individuals, is facing legal action that could cost them over N$53 million in restitution to the National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia (Namcor). The state-owned entity while filing particulars of a claim at the Namibian High Court has made serious allegations of...
The initial planning phase of the N$300 million independent producer-initiated beef-processing company Savanna Beef Processors Ltd has now come to an end, and the second phase of designing the details has started. According to a statement from issued by Seigfried Mecki Schneifer, the chairperson of Savanna Beef Processors Ltd on progress made since the annual...
Hyphen Hydrogen Energy (Hyphen) has concluded a N$102.3 million (€5 million) Project Preparation funding facility with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) to advance the development of Hyphen’s landmark green hydrogen project. The facility will be utilized for the partial funding of engineering, environmental, and socio-economic development workstreams related to the project’s development up...
Hyphen Hydrogen Energy (Hyphen) and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) on Thursday announced the finalisation of a €5 million Project Preparation funding facility. This fund aims to propel the development of Hyphen’s groundbreaking green hydrogen project, a statement released stated. The allocated €5 million will be directed towards financing various aspects of the...
By Adolf Kaure. Various stakeholders of the African Water Facility gathered in Swakopmund for the 23rd meeting of the Governing Council held alongside the seventh edition of the Africa Sanitation and Hygiene Conference (AfricaSan7) from Monday. Minister of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, Hon Calle Schlettwein, was recently appointed as the chairperson of the African Water...