A grade 10 pupil from Simataa Secondary School is in and out of hospital after suffering severe injuries in an alleged assault over an unpaid N$20 debt to another pupil. Matengu Lubasi’s life changed on 23 March when Grade 12…

“My sister did not deserve to die like that.” These are the words of Muhanga Nando’s sister, Chisekwa Mishinga, after an elephant killed Nando (37) in the Kavango East region last month. The elephant’s carcass is suspected to have rotted…

Minister of works and transport Veikko Nekundi says the government does not have money to build permanent bridges in regions that experience seasonal floods. Nekundi said this on Sunday in response to questions from Kalimbeza village communities on why the…

Namibia and Zambia are negotiating a joint dredging project for the Zambezi River to deepen waterways and mitigate the impact of severe seasonal flooding. Minister of works and transport Veikko Nekundi has confirmed this. Dredging is the process of removing…

Suspended Katima Mulilo Town Council chief executive Raphael Liswaniso says minister of urban and rural development James Sankwasa had forced the council to suspend him. Liswaniso, who won a labour case against the town council for his suspension on 28…

Flood-affected communities of the Kalimbeza and Masikili areas in the Zambezi region are now able to safely access schools and clinics following the installation of floating bridges. Communities in these areas, like many other areas in the Kabbe South and…

Some dog owners at Katima Mulilo say they do not have money to pay for the newly introduced dog tariffs. This comes after the Katima Mulilo Town Council on Thursday announced that it started with a dog registration and tariff…

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform has started relocating 57.5 tonnes of salvageable crops of flood-affected residents in the Zambezi region. The ministry’s intervention follows historically severe floods in the region, which have already wiped out thousands…

The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) says seasonal floods in the Zambezi region have left affected communities in a severely destitute state. This year’s floods, especially in the Kabbe South and Kabbe North constituencies, have displaced over 2 074 people as…

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform says floods experienced in the Zambezi region have made it difficult for it to continue spraying locust-infested areas. A locust outbreak in the Zambezi region has put a strain on the…

The Ministry of Works and Transport has bought 24 640 plastic ‘double cubes’, that can be converted into floating bridges, at a cost of N$24 million to mitigate the impact of floods in some of the country’s regions. Annual floods…

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has urged flood-affected residents in the Zambezi region to eat the 9 097 bags of rice given to them by the government and to stop resisting relocation. “Eating rice can prevent residents from getting opportunistic illnesses that…