Kunene residents plead for development
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Residents of Kunene are concerned about their safety due to poor road infrastructure and overflowing rivers during the rainy season.
Residents of Kunene are concerned about their safety due to poor road infrastructure and overflowing rivers during the rainy season.
Traditional authorities in the Kunene Region have commended the government for its continued efforts to provide relief food to drought-afflicted people in the region.
High cases of teenage pregnancy among girls aged between 13 and 19 years old in Kamanjab, Kunene Region, remain a burning social issue that needs concerted efforts to address.
Namibia's conservation expert, Dr. Philip Stander, says research is crucial to the conservation of endangered desert lions.
Dr. Stander has therefore called on youth to take up nature conservation studies to find solutions to human-wildlife conflict.
Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economics and Public Administration are concerned about equipment left behind by diamond exploration companies in the Skeleton Coast Park.
The committee visited a diamond exploration site at Mowe Bay in the Kunene Region.
The Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy says there are no diamonds at the Old Toscanini mine in Skeleton Coast Park, in the Kunene Region.
According to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, companies have been exploring diamonds in the area since the 1950s.
The residents of Okakondorokua Village in the Epupa Constituency, Kunene Region, are among those who benefited from the N$34 million budget aimed at the construction of water infrastructure and now have access to clean drinking water.
The Governor of Kunene Region has implored all councils, business people, communities, and youth to participate in the opportunities and value chains being created by the new economic drivers.
Kunene Governor Marius Sheya says the region's abundant natural resources are currently underutilised.
Speaking during a high-level meeting with the German delegation and local businesspeople in Outjo, Sheya emphasised that Kunene is open to investors across various sectors.
Following weeks of 15 OvaHimba families living alongside the road on the outskirts of Kamanjab Settlement, the Kunene Regional Council has intervened to assist the group, that was evicted from a resettlement farm in the area.