A delegation comprising Japanese Ambassador Hisao Nishimaki, UN Resident Coordinator Hopolang Phororo, and UNICEF Country Representative Sam Ocran visited the Rundu Intermediary Hospital in the Kavango East Region recently.
Japan has, to date, dispatched more than 100 teachers across different schools, while the construction of additional classrooms in Namibia continues.
Four minors from Livaye Village in Kavango East who died from suspected food poisoning were buried in a mass grave over the weekend.
Eight children initially ate the food, of whom four died and the others survived, while the remaining four were discharged.
The incident happened on February 26.
Employees of Kayova Lodge and the community in Kavango East are demanding the removal of the lodge's manager.
They claim that the management has diverted from the project's initial plan, from which the community was due to benefit.
The Rundu Rural Constituency councillor says that despite various studies revealing that Kavango East is one of the poorest regions, the central government has not done enough to turn the tide.
The leader of the Landless People's Movement, Bernadus Swartbooi, says Rundu is in a deplorable state.
During a media conference, the party leadership raised a number of concerns, mainly related to the town's infrastructure and land.
Leaders of the Kanono Women's Organisation, a small-scale farmers association in the Zambezi Region's Sibbinda Constituency, paid a visit to the green schemes in the Kavango East Region.
Namibia has recorded a total of 1,345 malaria cases since November 2023 in malaria-prone regions.
Cases are expected to increase significantly during the rainy season.
The acting Education Director in the Kavango East Region says despite the difficulties experienced by learners prior to the exams, the region is bound to perform better in 2023 than it did in 2022.
A staggering number of reported child abuse cases are piling up at the offices of the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare (MGEPESW).
