Donations have started trickling in for the two centres at Onamhinda A and B in the Ohangwena Region, where over 200 people have been temporarily relocated from their homes following heavy flooding.
Residents, including children from Ohangwena Region's Onamhinda village, were relocated to higher grounds after their houses and mahangu fields were submerged by floodwaters from southern Angola.
The Ohangwena Region has so far relocated 235 people from the Oshikango and Engela constituencies. These two constituencies are among the most affected by the floods, along with Ohangwena, Ongenga, and Endola.
Residents of Oshikunde's Onamafila village and the surrounding areas are calling for urgent action as their recently constructed primary health care clinic remains closed more than a year after completion.
Massive floodwaters from southern Angola hit northern Namibia on April 1, following heavy rainfall in the neighbouring country.
The International University of Management (IUM) opened a N$45 million campus at Eenhana in the Ohangwena Region.
The Shingunguma Combined School (SCS), situated in Eengava village in the Ohangwena Region, has been closed until further notice due to heavy rainfall, coupled with an influx of water from neighbouring Angola.
Classes have also been suspended until the situation stabilises.
O'Linn Nauyoma, the teenager who drowned in Lake Guinas in the Oshikoto Region last September, was buried on Saturday in Ohalushu Village, Ohangwena Region. His body was recovered three weeks ago.
Malaria cases are on the rise in the Ohangwena Region, prompting the regional health directorate to declare an outbreak.
The regional leadership held a malaria briefing on Thursday at Eenhana to map out how to combat and manage the outbreak.
Malaria cases in the Ohangwena Region reached high numbers between September 2024 and the 5th of January, with 1,888 cases recorded over that period.
Of these, 844 were local and 1,044 non-local, with cases ranging from as young as six months, to 101 years.
