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There Must Be Actions Against Gender-Based Abuse From – McLeod-Katjirua

A Governor of the Khomas Region in Namibia, Laura Veendapi McLeod-Katjirua has demanded that there most be sactions against men that violate the female child especially when they are underage, She further said government should sanction sex offenders. The rate of rape and child marriage is alarming especially in Africa. While talking at the 16 […]

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NEWS: Police Disperse Demonstration against gender-based abuse in Namibia

Namibian police fired rubber bullets, teargas and used batons to subdue the unparalleled and three-day nationwide protest staged on Saturday Adding to the aid of around four hundred by and large younger female – who raised their voices against gender-based violence and femicide on the streets of the nation’s capital city, Windhoek. Slogans and placards […]

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NEWS: Tourism Hoping Namibia Reopens Border to International Flights

Borders are Open in Namibia Ready for takeoff! Aeroplane runways in Namibia, as the Southern African country reopened its borders on September 1. The country hopes to fix hundreds of jobs in the country’s Covid-19 pandemic hard-hit tourism region — its third-largest source of overseas trade after the mining and fishing industries. As ultimate year […]

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Docks of hippos at risk in Namibia ‘s dried-up water hole

Dozens of hippopotamuses are caught in a shrinking pool of mud and water in a recreation reserve in Namibia and are at risk of dying of hunger and thirst, the Daily News online booklet mentioned on Saturday. The pool, in the Wuparo Conservancy about 900 km (600 miles)northeast of the capital Windhoek, was fed from […]

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NEWS: African Banks Under Pressure to speed up Digital Transformation

The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic across Africa has considered a surge in digital payments and e-commerce transactions as economic institutions scramble to provide organizations and consumers contactless methods of spending, borrowing and lending, and making payments. Cashless solutions like mobile lending and digital repayments had been already growing hastily on the continent even earlier […]

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Mixed reactions in Namibia over rejected Germany reparations offer

Reactions are pouring in Namibia over the government’s rejection of a 10 million euros genocide reparations offer from Germany. Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Tuesday said reparations offered by Germany for mass killings in its then colony were “not acceptable” and needed to be “revised”. There are mixed reactions on the streets of Windhoek the […]

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Namibia becomes first African country to export red meat to the US

Namibia has become the first African country to export red meat to the US, after nearly two decades of negotiations. The state-owned Meatco’s first shipment of meat, 25 tonnes of beef, set off towards Philadelphia on Wednesday, news agency Reuters reports. Minister of International Relations,Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah was pleased that the southern African country was able […]