21st October 2020  /  EAGLE FM

ON THE RADAR – 21/10/20

A. Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of Namibia has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 3.75 percent.

B. The Gender Ministry relies on 1 social worker for every 11 000 children needing help countrywide.  The United Nations estimates that the number of children under the age of 15 in Namibia is estimated to be 891 182.

C. The government has brought in the Namibian Air force to address the locust epidemic in the Zambezi region.