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Producer Price Index For Mining And Quarrying increases In Third Quarter
By: Hertha Ekandjo The mining and producer price index for the third quarter of 2022 rose to 130.5 basis points, up from 102.1 recorded in Q3 of 2021, which translates into an annual inflation rate of 27.9% compared to -17.8% recorded in the third quarter of 2021. This is according to the Namibia Statistic Agency's […]
Namibia Gets N$2 Billion German Loan
By: Staff Writter Namibia and German state-owned investment and development bank KfW, on Tuesday, signed two loan agreements of €40 million (N$746 million) and €50 million (N$932 million) for the construction and rehabilitation of key Namibian roads and water infrastructure to foster economic development. Another loan agreement of €20 million (around N$373 million) was signed […]
Parties Marry In Okakarara Council
By: Uakutura Kambaekua The Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) and National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) have again teamed up to run the Okakarara Town Council after clinching all top positions during last week’s internal elections. The Okakarara town councillors elected Nudo’s Asnath Kavetuna Jazukuka as the mayor deputised by Brickz Kaaronda of PDM. The town’s former […]
Fransfontein Community Garden Project Is Thriving
By: Juliana Iikela The parliamentary standing committee on natural resources which recently paid a follow-up visit to the Fransfontein Community Garden in the Kunene region has found that the garden is flourishing. The N$12.3 million Green Climate Fund (GCF) funded project was established by the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia (EIF) along with the ministry […]
Debmarine Donates Gardening Equipment To Mbambi School
By: Annakleta Haikera Debmarine Namibia yesterday donated gardening equipment valued at N$60 000 to the Mbambi Senior Primary School situated in the Sinyugwe circuit of the Kavango East region. Mbambi is a far-flung village in the Mukwe constituency some 60 kilometres from Rundu. The donation consists of gardening equipment such as shovels, rakes, clippers, watering cans […]
Uranium: Namibia’s Main Export For October
By:Staff writer According to financial experts, Namibia’s main export products during October 2022 were uraniumwhich was mainly shipped to China, fish in the main exported to Spain, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and diamonds chiefly sold to the United Arab Emirates and Belgium. The experts at Simonis Storms have however observed that […]
The Unconventional and Unorthodox Thoughts To save public funds, stop taking your whole ministry to one event
By:Kandjengo kaMkwaanyoka Some of our problems donot really require International Monetary Fund and the Harvard Lab expertise. Not at all. Especially on reducing public expenditure. We just have to do unconventional little things which on aggregate will be impactful. A few things I have observed all the years I have been reading trends and patterns […]
Venaani Represents Namibia At IDU Forum
By:Hertha Ekandjo The Popular Democratic Movement leader McHenry Venaani has attended the International Democratic Union (IDU) forum in Washington D.C., USA, which ended last week. The Forum was under the theme “Russia, the war and African interests“. Venaani represented Namibia at the forum as a leader of the opposition political party where he serves as […]
School Uniform Manufacturing Project Opened At Nkurenkuru
By:Nghiinomenwa-vali Erastus The Namibian government has inaugurated a school uniform manufacturing project at the Nkurenkuru town in Kavango West region to cut on the country’s heavy reliance on school uniform imports. The country imports 90% of school uniforms and sportswear sold in local retail stores mainly from South Africa, India and China. Speaking at the […]
Rundu Observes Human Rights Day
By:Annakleta Haikera Human Rights Day was commemorated in Rundu in the Kavango East region last Saturday, which coincided with the end of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. In Namibia, Namibian Women’s Day was enacted by parliament with the same celebration day as the International Human Rights Day with the efforts to raise […]