Namibia News

PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba is said to have recalled all ambassadors and high commissioners heading Namibia's foreign missions with one or two exceptions.

SMS Of The Day *I THINK it's time we up the age for access to alcohol to 21 years.

I'M so sure I was not the only one who was shocked and frankly a little disappointed with Damara Dik Ding earlier this week when news broke that he turned down an opportunity to perform in Washington DC with fellow artists Dickson, Blossom and Mushe.

GOING HUNGRY ... Lesley Mouton is one of more than 300 000 Namibians who are faced with food insecurities countrywide.

SMS Of The Day *ONE currency and same passport for all on the African continent? Have you not learned from the European Union which is based on this and is falling apart? But repeating previous mistakes in Africa is so often done with crippling consequences.

LIKE many Namibians, I am getting sick and tired of the repetitive rhetoric of those elected and selected to rule us, on how jobs are going to be created and poverty reduced when the reality is that, apart from our over-sized and over-paid public payroll, be it SOEs, public servants or city/town/village employees, work is becoming scarcer and ... (more)

The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Namibian Basketball Federation announced another short-term project aiming at developing basketball in Namibia.

The decentralisation of De Beers' rough-diamond sorting and trading from London to Namibia, under the Namibian Diamond and Trading Company, and Botswana under Diamond Trading Company Botswana, put a dent on the overall trade figures between Namibia and the United Kingdom.

Some commercial and communal farmers in the Omaruru district have started to sell some of their livestock as the drought tightens its grip across the country.

NO ELECTRICITY ... Many, like the two boys, in the informal settlements of Windhoek daily face the prospect of living without electricity.

TOASTING IT ... Namibian businessman Knowledge Katti, Brazilian oil company HRT's president Joe Paul, prime Minister Hage Geingob, Mines and Energy Minister Isak Katali and HRT's chief financial officer Martin Thomas Davis are seen celebrating the finding of the non-commercial oil.

Namibia's founding father Dr. Sam Nujoma has called on African countries to consolidate all structures of the African Union to build a united Africa with one defence force to defend its territorial integrity, territorial waters and airspace against foreign forces, Namibian Press Agency NAMPA reported.

Land degradation - more specifically drought and desertification - have become increasingly pressing problems for a growing number of countries around the world, threatening efforts to alleviate poverty, improve basic health and sanitation and address socioeconomic inequality, as well as spur agricultural and sustainable economic development.

PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba is expected to officially declare a state of emergency soon in the face of the devastating drought that is ravaging the country.

SMS Of The Day *NEXT week school will start. Can you please prepare your kids physically, emotionally and socially.

This is how much the Tov Multipurpose Centre in Tsumeb has committed to paying 20 primary school pupils attending the Ondundu Primary school.

Thank you, the Boers are dead. Nujoma's boys have killed the Boers, you all saw that they are dead.

THE Public Service Commission does not have any document in its files indicating that Namibia's President has ever given his consent to members of the commission to do paid work besides their official position, PSC Chairperson Eddie Amkongo revealed in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday.

CITIZEN Nahas, as usual when putting on his private hat hit the nail on the head by pointing out the reality that politics in Namibia is working hard to divide our nation.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba is expected to officially declare a state of emergency for the drought situation currently ravaging Namibia, says Prime Minister Hage Geingob.