Four staff members of Ai-Ais Resort, managed by Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR), and a Karasburg-based businessman briefly appeared in the Karasburg Magistrates' Court on charges of violating the Animal Health Act. 

The Measles-Rubella and Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) vaccination campaign in the ||Kharas Region got off to a smooth start, with health workers commending the positive public response on the first day of the campaign.

Plans are afoot to transform the !Homs-Ai Industrial Park at Keetmanshoop is turning into a development training hub equipping young people with skills. 

Tension briefly flared up during a Parliamentary Standing Committee oversight meeting after members raised questions over Naute Kristall Distillery's operational expenses and dividend payments. 

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Economy paid a courtesy call on ||Kharas Governor Dawid Gertze as part of its follow-up oversight visit to agro processing projects in the region. 

The state-owned enterprise, Namibia Industrial Development Agency (NIDA) has called for the speedy gazetting of asset transfers from businesses merged and dissolved to form the agency. 

The Namibia Development Corporation and the Offshore Development Company were merged and dissolved to form NIDA. 

The government continues diversifying its electricity markets to improve energy security, integrate renewable energy and drive economic competition.

The government has shifted its focus to full Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) recovery, while intensified surveillance, vaccination and disease control interventions continue.

Disease control interventions, among others, include ongoing construction of the animal control disease fence.

Residents of Noordoewer Settlement in the ||Kharas Region are fed up with the unreliable water supply that has been going on for two years now, despite its location along the Orange River. 

The !Nami#Nus Swapo Party District Youth League in the ||Kharas Region has condemned what they called political attacks on the Luderitz Waterfront Development Company.