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Salambala Conservancy game rangers have been pumping water into a muddy pool in the Chobe River since last month to save about 200 hippos. The situation has been brought about by the prevailing drought, with the hippos having nowhere to go to find water. The hippos in the pool are from the Mutikitila area of […]
…as winter approaches Some Nankuntwe Combined School pupils sometimes sleep outside their classrooms on the school premises, because the tents they normally sleep in are in a dilapidated state. The school is situated on the floodplains in the Kabbe South constituency in the Zambezi region, which often becomes inaccessible due to floods. As a result, […]
Minister of health and social services Kalumbi Shangula says the shortage of medical equipment in hospitals does not equate to negligence or malpractice. Shangula was responding to Popular Democratic Movement parliamentarian Winnie Moongo on the shortage of cardiotocography (CTG) papers at Windhoek Central Hospital. “How does the ministry plan to address concerns regarding potential malpractice […]
Well-known banking executive and former Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry northern branch chairperson Thomas Indji (44) died on Tuesday morning at a Windhoek hospital. His death was confirmed by his widow Iyaloo Shiimi-Iindji, who says her late husband died following hospitalisation. “Further announcements will be communicated in due course,” she says. Indji, who worked […]
Former Namibian refugees who were repatriated in 1989 under United Nations Resolution 435 of 1978 are demanding to be resettled and rehabilitated after 34 years of independence, says Former Refugees Repatriation Association Namibia member Julias Nkuve.Nkuve said this yesterday while handing over a petition at the United Nations head office in Windhoek. “According to the […]
Agriculture, water and land reform minister Calle Schlettwein does not want money returned to the treasury due to budget under expenditures. This comes after the media recently reported on the ministry returning money to the treasury that was meant to carry out ministerial projects. “Therefore, I would not be happy to hear money [is] returned […]
Deputy commissioner Kauna Shikwambi raises concern over the high number of crimes committed by young people in the Khomas, Kavango East and Omaheke regions, saying young people are terrorising communities in those areas. This happened when a parent reached out to The Namibian after their minor son was arrested on 12 April at Epako. “At […]
A police officer at Keetmanshoop, Uakuta Japuhua (37) , who attempted to take his life by setting a police vehicle alight, was denied bail in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Japuhua was charged with malicious damage to state property on Saturday. ||Kharas regional crime investigations coordinator Nicodemus Mbango says it is alleged that Japuhua […]
Three million children in Haiti are in need of humanitarian assistance as continuing gang violence hampers aid delivery, the head of the UN children’s agency, Unicef, has said. Catherine Russell said the situation in gang-wracked Haiti was “catastrophic” and growing worse “by the day”. She told a meeting of the UN Security Council that in […]
Police in the Omusati region arrested and 87 year old man after he allegedly raped his 14 year old granddaughter. The incident happened at OshikuShomunkete village, Oshikuku. Police reported that the suspect who was arrested on Monday and is a grand father to the victim had forceful intercourse with the girl after he invited her […]