World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti has said the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to an estimated 25 per cent global rise in depression and anxiety. Moeti revealed this in a statement on Monday in commemoration of World Mental Health Day, held under the theme ‘Make Mental Health and Wellbeing for…
Outgoing High Commissioner of Australia to Namibia, Gita Kamath, bid President Hage Geingob farewell at State House on Tuesday. Gita said Namibia is one of Australia’s good investment partnerships in the Commonwealth in various trading areas, particularly the mining sector, where collectively Australian companies are the biggest investors. She said the two liberal democracies share…
The Siguruguru Senior Primary School on the outskirts of Rundu is expected to receive 12 classrooms, an administration block and an ablution facility, all at a cost of N.dollars 20 million. This was said by the Governor of the Kavango East Region, Bonifatius Wakudumo during the official handover of school furniture to the school by…
Namibia and Qatar have consolidated actions geared towards the development of the oil industry through QatarEnergy’s investment in the recent oil discoveries in the country by TotalEnergies and Shell. The consolidation follows President Hage Geingob’s bilateral visit to Qatar in February 2022 aimed at seeking investors in areas of mutual interest such as agriculture, energy…
The main sponsors of the Namibia Netball Premier League (NNPL), Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC), has called on other corporates to rally behind netball in Namibia to improve the quality of the game. Speaking at the prize handover ceremony on Saturday, MTC’s Corporate Communications Practitioner, Fikameni Mathias, said local netball can only be competitive if there…
The Namibia Paralympic Committee (NPC) will be sending a group of athletes to represent the country at the upcoming Outeniqua Wheelchair Challenge that will be held in George, South Africa. The challenge, which is a unique event for disabled athletes in South Africa, will be staged in the picturesque town of George on 15 October…
Namibia’s 16th World Food Day commemoration will this year be held in the Uukwiyuushona Constituency in the Oshana Region, Executive Director in the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform Ndiyakupi Nghituwamata said. Nghituwamata in a media statement issued Monday said her ministry in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Oshana Regional Council,…
A 34-year-old farmworker died instantly on Sunday after he landed under the wheels of a trailer on Farm Radio in the Kalkfeld area. Namibian Police Force spokesperson in the Otjozondjupa Region, Inspector Maureen Mbeha on Monday told Nampa the deceased was identified by relatives as Hinamwene Shonena. Shonena, who is an Angolan national, was being…
Senior national football team coach Collin Benjamin has said the Young Warriors’ 0-6 defeat to Angola on Saturday is a lesson learned that they will carry forward. The Under-23 national team had a two-leg fixture in Luanda, Angola where they competed for a spot in the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations that will be held…
Khomas NamPol Volley Club and Revival Volley Club were on Saturday crowned the men’s and women’s champions of the 2022 Bank Windhoek Namibia Volleyball Federation (NVF) Cup respectively. The 2022 Bank Windhoek NVF Cup was held at the DTS Sports Ground in Olympia, where Revivals Volleyball Club, one of the more dominant local female teams,…