The Africa Regional Tobacco Control Partners Coordination Meeting is underway in Windhoek.
The main aim of the three-day meeting is to strengthen coordination of tobacco control efforts across Africa and to align strategies to reduce tobacco use and its health impacts.
Prime Minister, Elijah Ngurare has dismissed claims that Namibia's public hospitals are introducing separate units for government dignitaries, describing the narrative as dramatised and misleading.
Members of Parliament in the National Assembly have raised concerns over the continued allocation of funds to projects still at the feasibility study stage, noting that some of these studies are yet to be completed.
The long-awaited Omaruru Technical and Vocational Education and Training Centre is moving closer to reality, with training expected to begin in July.
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says that Workers' Day on May 1 will feature joint preparations by workers, the government, and employers in a tripartite arrangement.
