[IPS] United Nations -- Over 100,000 concerned petitioners have urged the Namibian government to scrap its plan to auction off 170 wild elephants -- which include rare desert-adapted elephants -- but the country's Ministry of Environment, Forestry an...

[Namibia Economist] With more than 50% of all new daily Infections of Covid19 on the continent being reported in the SADC region, health systems are rapidly reaching the limit of their capacities and the situation is expected to worsen in the short t...

[Namibian] Air Namibia's board has pleaded with the government for a N$95 million bailout, but the state appears to have allowed a private company to shut down the airline through the courts.

[Namibian] President Hage Geingob will meet his Botswana counterpart Mokgweetsi Masisi today to discuss various bilateral issues including the management and security of the border between the two countries.

[Namibian] Trial-awaiting inmates at the Wanaheda Police Station's holding cells have raised concerns over what they call deplorable conditions in the cells, with no proper sanitation facilities.

[Namibian] THE outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in northern Namibia has severely affected the red meat producers and kapana sellers who were already reeling from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

[Namibian] Lawyers representing former National Assembly member Geoffrey Mwilima and Namibia's prison authorities have not been able to reach a settlement in the High Court case in which Mwilima is trying to be released from prison on medical grounds...

[Namibian] Thanks to a "terrific" grape season that has far exceeded expectations, Namibia's grapes are expected to fetch about N$1 billion in export revenue, grape growers informed The Namibian this week.

[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -- President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi has traveled to Windhoek, Namibia on a one day working visit.

[Namibia Economist] Momentum Short Term Insurance Chief Executive, Johan Barnard, this week gave another major step in taking his company from a niche insurer to a major full-service insurer. On Friday he announced the acquisition of Alexander Forbes...

[Namibia Economist] A delegation from the Roots Agricultural village at Stampriet recently paid a courtesy visit to Agribank, to present and showcase their first harvest from the apple project that was co-financed by the bank.

[Namibia Economist] The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced that as of midnight 3 February, the price of petrol and diesel will increase by 50 cents per litre.

[Namibia Economist] Dutch technology enterprise Smart Parks has equipped the Cheetah Conservation Fund with new technology to monitor the animals and assets on the fund's 67,000-hectare private reserve, model farm and Field Research and Conservation ...

[Namibia Economist] NamWater has said that the flow of the Kuiseb River is rapidly subsiding with an abating momentum as the river reached Rooibank outside of Walvis Bay on its way flowing to the Atlantic Ocean.

[Namibian] The Ileni Mwitaleleko shelter, whose name translates to "Come and see for yourselves", has given visually impaired women a fresh lease of life but they claim they have been left on their own.

[Namibian] The Namibia Rugby Union yesterday confirmed that Namibia will participate in this year's u20 Africa Barthes Trophy to take place in Nairobi from 25 March to 4 April.

[Namibian] Over the past several months, The Namibian decided to dedicate resources to under-reported issues and places. The results from some of the topics and stories we chose shocked even those of us who believe we are comparatively well informed.

[Namibian] SOMETIMES, all is not clear, but Bank Windhoek's head of specialist finance Saara Shivute (SS) says all we need is to get started with whatever we want to achieve, be confident and we will figure it out along the way. She sits down with Th...

[Namibian] CRICKET Namibia and FlyWestair announced a partnership agreement on Wednesday, 27th January at Eros Airport.

[Namibian] The Namibia Sport Commission has condemned and distanced itself from an álleged new body' within Namibian gymnastics that it says is illegitimate and sowing confusion at home and abroad.

[Namibian] THE Ministry of Mines and Energy on Friday announced increase of fuel prices with both petrol and diesel increasing by 50 cents per litre.

[Namibian] Namibia gave a much-improved account of themselves during Wednesday night's goalless draw with Zambia at Limbe Omnisport Stadium.

[Namibian] Ohangwena police and their Zambian counterparts this afternoon exhumed four bodies of Namibian citizens who were killed by police in Zambia on 5 December 2019 in Lusaka.

[Namibian] A 16-year-oldgirl from Onembamba village in the Omusati region, who is living with a disability, might be forced to discontinue school because her unemployed parents cannot afford to buy her an artificial limb.

[Namibian] A controversial plan by a Chinese company to start a tobacco plantation in the Zambezi region may not go ahead after the Chinese investor failed to meet key conditions set by the Cabinet before the project kicks off.

[Namibian] NEARLY 17 years since he quit the game, former DTS and national hockey team star Issy Tjizake is still considered the best hockey goalkeeper Namibia has produced.

[Namibian] The Namibia Exile Kids Association (Neka) wants the ruling Swapo Party to recall all its representatives in the current administration under president Hage Geingob, saying they have made themselves guilty of corruption.

[Namibian] The government's plan to shut down Air Namibia has raised allegations that several well-connected people and companies are lined up to benefit from the downfall of the national airline.

[Namibia Economist] The Young Warriors will face Tunisia, Central Africa Republic (CAR) and Burkina Faso in Group B of the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations to be staged in Mauritania from from 14 February- 4 March, according to an announcement made th...

[Namibia Economist] Meat processing entity, Meatco anticipates prosperity for the agricultural sector amid the prevailing global COVID-19 pandemic, the company's CEO, Mwilima Mushokabanji highlighted in his new year's message released this week.