Close to a hundred senior citizens at Keetmanshoop in the ||Kharas Region were treated to a meal in celebration of Africa Day.

The Otjiwarongo Municipality unanimously approved the 2025/26 capital and expenditure budget of more than N$226 million at its special council meeting held here on Friday.

The council in 2024 tabled a budget of about N$144 million.

The high rate of teenage pregnancies in Namibia is becoming a growing concern. 

With a national average of nearly 20% of teenage girls falling pregnant annually, the Ombetja Yehinga Organisation (OYO), through its Youth Arts Festival, is touring the ||Kharas Region to raise awareness.

To boost small and medium enterprises, the Tobias Hainyeko constituency office has donated business equipment to eighteen entrepreneurs valued at N$277,000. 

 The businesses funded are fashion design, welding services, bakeries, fitness gyms, butchery, catering, and beautification services.

Urban and Rural Development Deputy Minister Evelyn !Nawases-Taeyele has welcomed plans to service 436 plots in Otjiwarongo as part of the informal settlement upgrading programme. 

MTC and the United Nations in Namibia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at advancing sustainable development through digital transformation and addressing the digital divide.

The Masubia Traditional Authority has officially inaugurated Gilbert Muhongo Mutwa as Chief, bringing to an end a four-year leadership vacuum following the death of Munitenge Kisco Maiba Liswani III in 2021.

Historian Dr. Martha Akawa-Shikufa says there is a need to educate young Namibians about the genocide history and how such events can be prevented in the future. 

The Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP) has launched an innovative hub at Swakopmund for manufacturing medical consumables, including laboratory products such as specimen tubes and vials, at a cost of N$14 million.

The Roads Authority has made headway with the first phase of construction of the Bukalo-Muyako-Ngoma Road.