President Nangolo Mbumba says Namibia's leadership made a conscious decision to foster healthy relationships with the church and traditional authorities.

The traditional leaders from the Hardap and ||Kharas regions have raised a number of issues during their meeting with President Nangolo Mbumba.

These include drought, progress on the Nama and Ovaherero genocide negotiations, and chieftaincy succession disputes.

President Nangolo Mbumba engaged traditional leaders of the eight northern traditional authorities at Oshakati this morning.

The aim was to familiarise himself with traditional leaders, inform them officially that he had taken office as Head of State, and seek their blessings.

Various traditional leaders in the Omaheke Region described the late President Hage Geingob as someone who had always encouraged traditional leaders to reason together in their differences for the benefit of community development. 

Some traditional leaders in the Aminuis constituency are strongly opposed to the proposed mining of uranium along the Stampriet aquifer.

The leaders are of the opinion that they were not properly consulted in the matter.

The Omaheke Communal Land Board, traditional leaders, and other stakeholders are on a one-day engagement on issues pertaining to new customary land rights, registration, and other functions of traditional leaders when dealing with land allocation.

The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Namibia-Angola and Women's Action for Development have launched a conflict resolution book for traditional authorities in the four north-central regions.