The government has shifted its focus to full Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) recovery, while intensified surveillance, vaccination and disease control interventions continue.
Disease control interventions, among others, include ongoing construction of the animal control disease fence.
Residents of Noordoewer Settlement in the ||Kharas Region are fed up with the unreliable water supply that has been going on for two years now, despite its location along the Orange River.
The !Nami#Nus Swapo Party District Youth League in the ||Kharas Region has condemned what they called political attacks on the Luderitz Waterfront Development Company.
The Swapo Party Secretary General, Sophia Shaningwa, has reminded district treasurers in the ||Kharas Region that their responsibilities extend beyond petty cash administrators to safeguarding finances and building sustainable enterprises.
Livestock feedlot operators in the ||Kharas Region have called for livestock movement to abattoirs and processing meat products outside the Foot and Mouth Disease epicenter to be allowed.
The Directorate of Veterinary Services has commenced with compulsory Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccination in the ||Kharas Region's Karasburg state veterinary district.
The Karasburg veterinary district is the epicenter since its outbreak on a farm.
The government intends to build an animal disease control fence in the ||Kharas Region that will stretch from Klein Manasse, Aroab Village, south of Keetmanshoop to Naute Dam and then continue to the Fish River Canyon.
This was revealed in a veterinary public notice government issued.
The ||Kharas Police Commander, Marius Katamila, has commended the region's farming community for their cooperation and adherence to Foot-and-Mouth Disease animal movement restrictions.
The restrictions were imposed following an outbreak of FMD at a farm in Karasburg district.
Heavy winds accompanied by rain on Sunday damaged properties in Keetmanshoop.
A house in the Keetmanshoop Tseiblaagte residential area had its roof sheets blown off by heavy winds
The strong gusts also knocked down electrical poles.
The ||Kharas Police Commander, Marius Katamila, has rejected rumours of ritual killings at Noordoewer.
