As the 44-year-old is sworn in after a crucial election, we chart the road to victory for Africa’s newest and youngest leader. Dakar, Senegal – “Finally, we can breathe,” the cashier at the American Food Store supermarket in Dakar said while swiping a pot of Greek yoghurt through checkout. It was three days after Senegal’s...
Staff Reporter DURING her budget motivation speech for the Office of the Prime Minister, Saara-Kuugongelwa Amadhila, the Namibian Prime Minister, said that her office has introduced the Commodity & Beneficiary Management Information System (CBMIS). This system enables the digitization of data of beneficiaries for drought relief food and the issuance of vouchers to beneficiaries. “The...
The Education Directorate of the Oshikoto Region continues to operate from offices in Ondangwa in the Oshana Region, despite concerns over the associated costs. In an interview with Nampa on Tuesday, Oshikoto Education Director Aletta Eises said her office has received numerous complaints and requests for the office to be moved from Ondangwa to the...
The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) continues to bring services closer to the people, and residents of Outapi and surrounding areas now have service at their doorsteps. The growth of the Omusati Region and Outapi, among others, is attributed to institutions such as the GIPF, which has heeded the call for decentralisation and set up...
Staff Reporter GONDWANA Collection Namibia has announced the opening of a new office for their car rental service, Namibia2Go, in Walvis Bay. “Experience seamless travel with our exclusive coastal rates, designed to cater to your professional or private needs within a 100km radius from our Walvis Bay coastal office and The Delight Swakopmund,” Gondwana’s Public...
Martin Endjla The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) celebrated the decentralization of services and enhanced accessibility during the official opening of its new regional office in Outapi. Edwin Tjiramba, the GIPF’s General Manager of Marketing and Stakeholder Engagement, stressed the importance of this expansion and reiterated the GIPF’s commitment to decentralization and bringing services nearer...
The Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) Namibia and SAI Norway are working together to conduct a special audit workshop on the Extractive Industries (EI), with a particular focus on gold minerals, from 11 to 15 March. The Office of the Auditor-General said this will serve as a platform for discussion on the preliminary findings of performance,...
Information minister Emma Theofelus has confirmed that the information commissioner’s office will become fully operational by the end of the year. Theofelus, in conversation with Namibian Sun last week, indicated that this is subject to the regulations governing the office being officially gazetted. She said the regulations will be tabled in parliament before 21 March....
The Namibia Green Hydrogen Programme, led by James Mnyupe, has appointed seven executives to its inaugural office on three-year contracts from 1 February. Mnyupe, who used to advise president Hage Geingob on economic affairs, was appointed as the country’s first green hydrogen commissioner by Geingob last year. The green hydrogen office is run through the...