Namibian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) warn that HIV infections are rising, with three new cases reported daily, following the withdrawal of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) over a year ago. USAID stopped funding Namibian NGOs after United States…

Teachers and public servants are planning to demonstrate on Friday against the Public Service Medical Aid Scheme 100% contribution increase, as well as the directive to be treated at public hospitals. In what is called an Economic National Day of…

Thrifted clothes, handbags, shoes, hand-made jewellery, a variety of desserts, cheeses, snacks, fish bowls, fruits and vegetables line the vendors’ stalls at The Village Sunday Market. Sounds from local band Soul Jazz fill the air. The market, which takes place…

Windhoekers gathered at The Book Den to celebrate the book launch of Marisa ‘Mel’ Kelly’s latest short stories collection, ‘The Limbo Circus & Other Shorts Stories’, last week. The book was published last month by Modjaji Books under her pen…

The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture has invited artists and music industry stakeholders to help shape the possible return of the Namibian Annual Music Awards (NAMAs), five years after it went dormant. Namibia’s biggest music awards,…

The Walvis Bay Corridor Group says 700 SADC truck drivers have been forced to take alternative routes to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after heavy rainfalls destroyed a key bridge at at the Kasumbalesa Border Post in Zambia on…

The Namibian media industry has faced criticism from Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) president McHenry Venaani. He feels that journalism in Namibia is not effectively contributing to political discourse in the country. Venaani, while addressing the media and party members in…