The $12 million community garden project to address food insecurity in the Kunene Region has officially been handed over by Environment, Forestry and Tourism Minister, Pohamba Shifeta.
The 16-hectare garden at Fransfontein is focused on both horticultural and dryland crop production.
Okahandja, once known as the Garden Town, seems to be losing its status.
In recent years, heaps of domestic refuse have been piling up in residential areas, particularly in informal settlements.
The Chief Executive Officer of Okahandja, Alphons Tjitombo, has urged residents to be patient as the municipality is in the process of procuring new trucks and waste-bins for needy households in an effort to clean up the town.
The Eternal Life Worship City donated food, clothing items, and sanitary pads to the residents of Babylon in Windhoek.
The items, worth N$11,000, will be distributed to vulnerable communities under the project of the church in the community.
Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila says traditional authorities are key in instilling cultural values, traditions, and norms as well as supporting government programmes aimed at ensuring that people are living in unity, peace, and harmony.
Ntelamo Batubaja, a self-subsistence small-scale farmer in Kambe, Zambezi Region, says elephants have continued to cause losses in his vegetable garden since 2020.
The Education Director in the Omusati Region, Benny Eiseb, is concerned about water shortages being experienced at a number of schools in the region.
Eiseb informed the Prime Minister, who was in the region to assess service delivery, that 40 schools in the region were facing water shortages.
The Nyemba-speaking people in Namibia are calling for an investigation into alleged tribal discrimination against their community.
In a petition, the group also dismissed accusations that they sought recognition as a tribal authority.
The residents of Otjimanangombe Village in the Epukiro Constituency in Omaheke now have a fully furnished ambulance, donated by the Catherine Bullen Foundation.
The ambulance is valued at N$1 million.
Former Vice-Chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology, Dr Tjama Tjivikua, has called for the establishment of more educational institutions as space remains a challenge for learners every year.
