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The Ondangwa Town Council has renewed its appeal to residents and surrounding village livestock owners to keep their animals off town roads. The council held a consultative meeting with livestock owners on Tuesday to discuss a way forward. Council spokesperson Petrina Shitalangaho-Mutikisha emphasises that the primary goal is community safety and accident prevention ahead of the festive season.  ...

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang faces a deadline today to respond to three senior Republican committee chairs in the House of Representatives, who have told him to either attend a closed-door briefing next week or face being compelled to testify. The demand comes as US President Donald Trump revealed the FBI is investigating Huang's relationship with Alice Huang, the managing director of Singa...

S.A's Union federation SAFTU has rejected president Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to grant a 3.5-percent salary increase to political office-bearers, including members of the national executive and Parliament. The federation does, however, support the four-percent increase for judges. SAFTU’s Asive Dyani says the independence and proper functioning of the judiciary are essential to constitutional dem...

The World Health Organisation says ending cholera as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, as vaccines and rapid diagnostic tests reach outbreak zones quicker. Fatalities dropped in the first nine months of this year, but over three-thousand people have still died of the preventable and treatable disease - 90-percent in Africa. Last year was the deadliest for cholera since 1999, with alm...

The foot-and-mouth disease outbreak is still confined to the Karasburg Veterinary State District and no new cases were reported to date which means the line minsitry's interventions are proving to be highly successful. Agri-spokesperson Romeo Muyunda said in his weekly update that 18 farms and 131 animals were still infected, as per the last three weeks. Future Media News Podcasts Webpage

The COP31 World Leaders’ Summit has opened in Antalya, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressing delegates, while several key European leaders and the US government are absent. Turkey is pushing to increase electricity’s share of energy consumption to 35% by 2035, but critics question the voluntary target and the lack of guarantees that new po...

Water and sanitation remain among the biggest challenges facing the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development. Former Minister Erastus Uutoni called for increased investment in water storage, desalination and sanitation infrastructure to address growing demand. His remarks come as President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah warned that infrastructure in towns such as Rundu, Katima Mulilo and Okahandja is neari...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in collaboration with the Ministry of International Relations and Trade and the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry, launched a guide to help Namibian businesses trade more effectively under the African Continental Free Trade Area. The guide provides practical information on import and export procedures, regulatory requirements and documentat...

The Presidency has defended President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s participation in the launch of the proposed N$41billion Dangote tank farm and regional pipeline project. The Presidency said the President’s attendance demonstrated government support for investment and did not amount to environmental approval. It stressed that the project must still undergo all necessary legal and regulatory processes...

The ANC Youth League says the party's National Executive Committee must take collective accountability for the poor performance in the elections. The ANC remains the largest party nationally, securing 30.76 percent of the vote, but its support has dropped by almost 15 percent since 2021. It held outright majorities in 161 municipalities in 2021, but this year it controls just 51. Youth League pres...

A senior American military officer has been arrested in England on suspicion of spying for Russia, in a joint operation involving Britain's MI5 security service and the FBI. The 41-year-old suspect, described as a field-grade officer, was serving at a NATO headquarters in Gloucestershire when he was detained on Tuesday by British counter-terrorism police. He is being held at a London police statio...

South Africa’s Freedom Front Plus says that, after a decade of uncertainty created by the Copyright Amendment Bill, it has now also caused serious economic damage, after it was cited as one of the reasons for the termination of South Africa’s African Growth and Opportunity Act benefit. In June this year, the Constitutional Court found sections of the bill unconstitutional. The FF Plus’s Jaco Mulde...

COP31 is underway in Turkey, a decade on from the Paris Agreement and during a year of large climate disasters including drought, fires and floods. Local ecologists have warned of repeated talk shops where nothing happens while the Namibian government says their focus will be climate adaptation funds. International climate activist Greta Thunberg says this COP will likely not change anything.  Fut...

The German Embassy in Namibia has supported SOS Children’s Village incubation center in Ondangwa with a total value of N$475 000. The fully furnished building, which is designed to support 50 family beneficiaries in Ondangwa, was officially launched on Tuesday. Participants will learn professional baking, financial literacy, and essential business skills to turn recipes into sustainable enterprise...

South Africans are increasingly turning to retailers, microlenders and online lenders for cash as financial pressure mounts. DebtBusters' latest Debt Index shows banks now account for just 65 percent of new debt counselling applicants' borrowing, the lowest level on record. Almost two-thirds of applicants have payday loans, while the average person has a record 8.8 credit agreements. Benay Sager o...

Shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia and its chief executive, Jensen Huang, accusing them of failing to disclose his links to a woman alleged to have funnelled information to Beijing. The suit, filed in a federal court in San Jose, California, on Tuesday, comes a day after US President Donald Trump confirmed the FBI is investigating the affair. Senior lawmakers from both p...

Minister of Environment Indileni Daniel is calling for climate justice, saying Namibia contributes little to global carbon emissions but continues to suffer the effects of climate change, including recurring droughts, floods and water scarcity. She outlines Namibia’s priorities at COP31 in Türkiye. Delegates will also consider global targets to increase the share of energy demand met by electricit...

The US House of Representatives has voted to sideline a resolution to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, referring it to committee and effectively ending the effort to remove him over his handling of the war in Iran. The US House of Representatives has voted to sideline a resolution to impeach Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, referring it to committee and effectively ending the effort to remov...

Namibia’s annual inflation rate, at 5.6% in October, was largely driven by higher transport and food costs. This is according to Standard Bank Namibia’s Group Economist, Helena Mboti. According to the latest economic analysis, transport inflation accelerated to 16.5%, reflecting higher fuel prices and public transport costs. Mboti says the average inflation for this year will reach 4.35% at most b...

The Rough & Tough Rally, one of Namibia’s premier adventure fundraising events, combining classic car enthusiast culture with major charitable support for the Cancer Association of Namibia, comes to an end on Saturday. Since 2018, the event has raised around N$3 million for the association. Members of the public are invited to join in the fun at Goanikontes Oasis on Saturday from 10:00 with live m...

Namibia has begun implementing electronic identity documents, known as e-IDs, as part of government efforts to modernise the country's identity management system and improve public service delivery. The new smart identity cards contain an electronic chip with personal and biometric information, including fingerprints, to strengthen identity verification and prevent fraud. Existing identity cards w...

South Africa’s official unemployment rate has edged up to 33.7-percent between July and September, from 33.6-percent in the previous quarter. The number of unemployed people rose by 97-thousand to 8.6-million, while discouraged job-seekers increased by 70-thousand to 3.7-million. Statistics South Africa’s Dimakatso Maloka says the broader unemployment measure, which includes people who have given...

A report presented on Tuesday at the COP31 climate summit in Antalya shows global fossil fuel emissions dropped by around nought-point-four per cent in 2026, though analysts have cautioned it is too early to declare a lasting turnaround. The slight decline has been attributed to the impact of the war in Iran and the rapid expansion of cheaper renewable energy, but developing nations at the talks s...

The Government Institutions Pension Fund will host its inaugural Investment Symposium in Windhoek on 11 and 12 November, bringing together investment professionals, industry experts and key stakeholders. Held under the theme “Investment Ready: Positioning Namibia for Institutional Capital”, the symposium will focus on investment opportunities, mobilising institutional capital and strengthening Nam...

South Africans are increasingly turning to retailers, microlenders and online lenders for cash as financial pressure mounts. DebtBusters' latest Debt Index shows banks now account for just 65-percent of new debt counselling applicants' borrowing, the lowest level on record. Almost two-thirds of applicants have payday loans, while the average person has a record 8.8 credit agreements. Benay Sager o...