Namwater has completed the construction of the water canal at a cost of N$93.5 million.
The construction of a 5.8-kilometer canal, which stretches from Omahenene to Olushandja in the Omusati Region, commenced in February last year.
The Naiti Combined School in Okalongo Circuit of the Omusati Region is in need of extra classrooms, an administration block, chairs and desks, as well as teacher houses and ablution facilities.
With the dignity of schoolgirls considered a key factor in school drop-outs, the United Nations Population Fund has donated sanitary kits to learners at Odeitotela Combined School in the Omusati Region.
The kits are part of a N$7.4 million grant by the Japanese government and are meant for eight regions.
The Naiti Combined School in Okalongo Circuit in Omusati Region is in need of an extra classroom, an administration block, teacher's houses, chairs and tables, and ablution facilities.
The school started as a mission school in 1972 and was transformed into a government school in the early 1980s.
Learners and teachers of the Onawa Secondary School in Omusati Region's Anamulenge Circuit held a demonstration over the shortage of water supply there.
The group marched to the office of the Omusati Education Director at Outapi.
Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa Amadhila visited Okahao Primary School in Omusati Region, where she is a patron and a former learner.
The Education Director in the Omusati Region, Benny Eiseb, is concerned about water shortages being experienced at a number of schools in the region.
Eiseb informed the Prime Minister, who was in the region to assess service delivery, that 40 schools in the region were facing water shortages.
Outdated equipment, facilities, and tractors that have been broken for about six years now are said to be hampering operations at the Etunda Green Scheme Irrigation Project in the Omusati Region.
A 33-year-old Namibian male has been arrested for the murder of his former girlfriend and mother of his three children, at Uukwanapembe Village in the Omusati Region last night.
Farmers in the Omusati Region and beyond are participating in Unam's Ogongo Campus Agricultural annual conference to share and gain experience from different practitioners on agricultural research, innovation, and training opportunities.
