The draft Migration Bill seeks to align the three-decade-old immigration legislation with current migration trends and challenges.
The Director of Immigration and Border Control, Danelie |Naris, revealed this during ||Kharas stakeholder consultations on the draft bill held in Keetmanshoop.
The Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA) launched the Effective Communicators Conference 2026, a platform designed to bring communication professionals together to exchange knowledge, strengthen skills, and explore emerging trends in the communication sector.
Swanu leader Evilastus Kaaronda raised concerns in the National Assembly regarding the cancellation of some unverified old-age grants.
He questioned the Ministry of Finance whether the implemented digital system could be the cause.
Almost 16,000 Old Age Grant beneficiaries have been temporarily suspended from Namibia's social grants system after their names could not be verified in the National Population Registry System.
An advocacy group has launched a movement calling for what it describes as true and just reparations for the descendants of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide.
The Genocide Reparations Advocacy Forum launched the movement at a media briefing in Windhoek on Tuesday.
Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs Frans Kapofi has called for responsible resource management and greater investment in African-led research to drive the continent's development.
Kapofi said this during the launch of the Security, Resource Control and Democracy in Africa book.
During yesterday's session of the National Assembly, members of the opposition expressed resistance toward the proposed Land Bill, stating that they cannot approve it in its current form.
The Director of Health in the Otjozondjupa Region, Gebhardo Timotheus, has confirmed that a man reported missing from Tsumkwe after he was transferred to the Katutura Hospital in Windhoek died in 2019.
Timotheus said there is no record of what happened to his remains.
Married couples seeking divorce will no longer have to prove adultery, cruelty, desertion or other forms of marital misconduct following the implementation of the Dissolution of Marriages Act, 2024.
The ongoing shortage of medicine in public health facilities has sparked concern from the public, with some patients reportedly having to buy pharmaceuticals themselves.
