Male employees at the Arandis Town Council are now legally entitled to 10 days of parental leave.
This follows a collective agreement signed between the Arandis Town Council and the Namibia Public Workers Union, which also includes a 3% salary increment across the board as of the financial year 2023.
The Chairperson of the National Federation of People with Disabilities in Namibia (NFPDN) says there is a need to address loopholes in the country's national disability policy.
The Deputy Minister of Disability Affairs has expressed concern about the high number of children living with disabilities in Namibia who are not able to attend school due to discriminating factors.
Alexia Manombe-Ncube was speaking at the National Disabilities Conference in Windhoek today.
The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Kalumbi Shangula, says the government has never stopped its surveillance activities to track COVID-19 in the country.
President Hage Geingob has returned home from the COP27 global climate summit in Egypt, where he joined other world leaders to discuss how countries around the world should accelerate their efforts in combating climate change and bring it under control.
