The Directorate of Water Supply within the Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform plans to drill a hundred more boreholes across the country in this financial year.

Dr. Elijah Ngurare, the Deputy Executive Director for Water Supply and Sanitation Coordination, however, shared his frustration about people stealing water pumps and literally reversing government achievements.

Many communities have been and are still struggling to access potable water.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform, in collaboration with the Meat Board of Namibia, launched a country-wide awareness campaign on the Livestock Identification and Traceability System (NamLITS) and stock brands at Katima Mulilo.

The campaign runs until the end of October.

The campaign aims to raise awareness, educate farmers on the appropriate use of cattle eartags and stock brands, and provide guidance on how to register on NamLITS online.

The ministries of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform, and Environment, Forestry, and Tourism held a sub-basin landscape level inception meeting at Ndiyona Constituency in the Kavango East Region.

The meeting was meant to sensitise locals to the project and eventually get them to buy into it.

The five-year project, launched at Rundu on the first of March this year, is funded by the Global Environment Facility and implemented through the two ministries at a cost of N$6 million.

Two men and a woman were denied bail on Monday after they were found in possession of a suspected stolen ox.

The suspects, who appeared in the Rundu Magistrates Court on Wednesday, are charged with the possession of suspected stolen stock, the importation of animals into Namibia without a permit, forgery, and uttering.

The two men, 34-year-old Siwogedi Fellip Haingura and 23-year-old Lukas Kavimba Muyenga, are suspected of having stolen an ox from Angola and brought it into Namibia at night to sell.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Land Reform has partially lifted the restriction on the movement of cloven-hoofed animals and animal products within the Zambezi Region. The restriction was imposed on the region after the Foot and Mouth Disease outbreak was detected in cattle from three kraals in the region last month.