The gains Namibia has made in eliminating malaria are being threatened by inadequate funding.

The Khorixas Health District in the Kunene Region has been awarded the Simon Kunene Subnational Verification, or award, for outstanding success in achieving near zero indigenous malaria transmissions from 2020 to 2024.

Swapo Central Committee member James Uerikua has applauded the Grootfontein Municipality and political leaders for ensuring development is taking shape, despite financial challenges, to fully roll out programmes to improve the lives of the people in the region. 

Development challenges such as a lack of adequate schools, water infrastructure, roads, and housing, as well as the impact of drought, were highlighted as major concerns that need attention in the Kunene Region. 

The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism is satisfied with road upgrades in Etosha National Park ahead of the peak tourism season.

The ministry's Executive Director, Teofilus Nghitila, assessed the progress of the road upgrade.

A 58-year-old man plummeted to his death from a 15-metre-high water tower in Otjiwarongo on Saturday.

The deceased, who is yet to be identified, was part of a team contracted by Otjiwarongo Municipality to work on the tower.

Residents of Omaruru have threatened to occupy unserviced land, saying the municipality has failed to address their grievances.

These include a lack of affordable land and housing, development, employment opportunities, and improved living standards.

Otjozondjupa Region has highlighted a lack of special schools or resource centres in the region as a concern. 

Otjozondjupa Regional Council Chairperson, Marlene Mbakera, says government schools are also not inclusive towards children with disabilities, resulting in them not completing school.

In a bid to ease the burden of overcrowding in classrooms, two new schools have been opened at Otjiwarongo . 

The new primary and secondary schools are to accommodate learners who were previously taught in overcrowded classrooms, tents, and those in a platoon system from different schools.

As campaigns take shape ahead of the national elections, Swapo Party Central Committee member James Uerikua says the country is firm and solid under the leadership of the Swapo Party.

Uerikua expressed this at a mini-rally held at Okamatapati settlement.