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Namibia 7th parliament swing into action
Namibia’s members of the 7th parliament were sworn in Friday in Windhoek ahead of president Hage Geingob’s inauguration on Saturday. The members from 11 parties also elected the National Assembly speaker and the deputy speaker. The 96 members were sworn in small groups of 10 to avoid close contact during this time of COVID-19. There […]
Geingob Retains the Top 3
President Hage Geingob has reappointed vice president Nangolo Mbumba, prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila and deputy prime minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah ahead of his inauguration on Saturday. Geingob announced the reappointments Wednesday at State House in Windhoek. He said the vice president deputises and assists the president in the execution of his Constitutional mandate. “In appointing a […]
Namibia announces wide-reaching measures to combat COVID-19
Namibia has put in place more measures to contain the spread of coronavirus after president Hage Geingob declared a state of emergency on Tuesday. Some of the measures are: a travel ban on people from Schengen States, China, Iran, Korea, UK, USA, Japan temporary travel ban on Namibians resident in other countries except for special […]
Aochamub first known Namibian to test positive for COVID-19
Deputy Prime Minister and the international relations minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah on Tuesday said that Namibia’s ambassador to France Albertus Aochamub tested positive for the coronavirus. Nandi-Ndakitwah revealed this at State House in Windhoek when she gave an account of what the international relations ministry was doing regarding curbing the coronavirus. Although she did not give […]
COVID-19 thrusts Namibia into a state of emergency
President Hage Geingob has declared a national state of emergency with effect from Tuesday 17 March 2020 to enable the government to marshall resources and put additional measures to curb the COVID-19 in place. Namibia has two confirmed COVID-19 cases of a couple that flew into the country last week and tested positive a few […]
Geingob did not do enough – Venaani
The PDM leader McHenry Venaani said then changes made by President Hage Geingob are not enough because he has retained the position of the vice president. Geingob announced a new government structure ahead of his inauguration set for Saturday either at State House or a hotel. The post of the vice president was created in […]
Geingob announces new government structure
President Hage Geingob has announced a new structure for his upcoming administration that will have 19 ministries instead of the current 26. Geingob made the announcement on Monday in Windhoek ahead of his inauguration for the second five-year term on Saturday. He has retained the vice presidency position that was created in 2014 and brought […]
Zim defence minister says COVID-19 punishment for sanctions
Zimbabwe’s defence minister Oppah Muchinguri has called the coronavirus pandemic a “punishment” of the US and Europe for imposing sanctions against members of the ruling regime over human rights abuses. Muhcinguri led the Sadc observer mission that monitored Namibia’s 2019 Presidential and National Assembly elections. “Coronavirus is the work of God punishing countries who imposed […]
Ramaphosa calls for the real ‘thuma mina’ moment against COVID-19
South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa said his country was dealing with a national disaster after the number of confirmed cases reached 61 on Sunday. “We have now declared a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act”, announced Ramaphosa. This is will enable us to have an integrated and coordinated disaster management mechanism […]
Kenyan president announces stringent measures against COVID-19
My fellow Kenyans. On Friday, March 6th,2020 the Government of Kenya received confirmation of the first case of COVID-19, commonly known as Coronavirus. Asyoumayrecall, when we first announced the confirmation of the first case, we stated that we had traced 27 persons who had come into contact with the first patient. We have since […]