A fire that broke out last night at Shoprite Outapi Town Square was still burning this morning. 

The cause of the fire is unknown.

Eyewitnesses said the fire started around 21:00 from inside the store. 

About 29 reed houses have been destroyed in a fire at Aussenkehr settlement in ||Kharas Region this week.

The acting Police Regional Crime Coordinator for ||Kharas, Detective Chief Inspector Jochobetha Angukku, confirmed the fire incident that broke out on Tuesday morning.

A joyous atmosphere of the festive season has been shattered for 19 displaced families residing at Windhoek's Katutura Youth Complex.

A destructive fire tore through their place of residence, leaving families devastated and homes reduced to ashes.

About 30 residents of Aussenkehr, whose reed houses were destroyed by a fire two weeks ago, are still being housed in tents.  

The blazing fire displaced 57 households and claimed a life. 

A Zambian truck driver narrowly escaped death at the Ngoma border post in the Zambezi Region when his parked truck caught fire while he was sleeping. 

The driver is reported to have arrived at Ngoma Post Tuesday morning from Zambia via Botswana in transit to Walvis Bay, transporting copper.

A fire erupted on the upper floor of a hostel building at Ella Du Plessis High School on Wednesday morning. 

The City of Windhoek's fire brigade successfully extinguished the flames. 

Earlier this year, the students were moved from this building as it was declared unfit for habitation.

A fire broke out at the Directorate of Water Supply and Sanitation Coordination in Rundu, destroying more than N$360,000 worth of water infrastructure.

The senior administrative officer in that directorate, Josef Shinkanda, says what caused the fire is still unknown.

Two families in Kongola have lost everything in a fire that started while they were at church.

Nora Samba, a 38-year-old woman from Tulikonge Village in the Mwanzi area, is the most affected after all three houses in her courtyard burned to ashes.

The fire that ravaged several shacks at Walvis Bay last night has prompted residents to make fresh demands for serviced land. Families on Khomas Hochland Street were left destitute last night after a shack fire ravaged their homes and belongings.

Twenty-six shacks were ravaged by fire last night at Tutaleni in Walvis Bay.

Residents in the Khomas Hochland street at Tutaleni Walvis Bay were rudely awakened by a huge fire that started from one of the shacsks.