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Coaching Clinics Feature In Sport Awards Lineup
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Namibia Annual Sport Awards are back, and this year, they're not just about honoring athletes. The Namibia Sport Commission is adding a series of coaching clinics to the schedule, aiming to improve the skills and knowledge of coaches...
GH must impact lives of Namibians …PM calls on green hydrogen conference to turn words into action
New Era
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For Namibia, green industrialisation is a pathway to dignity, jobs, and empowerment for communities. It is a catalyst to breaking the cycle of exporting raw materials and import-dependency. This was the sentiment expressed yesterday by Natangue...
Namibia Lacks Up-to-date Picture on Skills Landscape
Villager
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September 10, 2025
By: Dwight Links and Nghiinomenwa-vali Hangala There is no comprehensive up-to-date picture of Namibia’s current skills landscape. Moreover, the number of Namibians who are equipped to participate meaningfully in emerging industries, according to...
OBSERVER DAILY | An inconvenient truth: Namibia’s silent suicide crisis
Windhoek Observer
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Namibia is facing an inconvenient truth, one we have been too timid to confront head-on: suicide is claiming lives at an alarming rate. Among those who have chosen this tragic path are not only men and women buckling under social and economic...
Experts Launch a Climate and Health Curriculum for African Negotiators Ahead of COP30
Inter Press Service
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September 11, 2025
Africa, Climate Action, Climate Change, Climate Change Finance, COP30, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Women's Health Health Delegates at the...
BOOK REVIEW | A symbol of a people’s determination: THE WINDHOEK OLD LOCATION by Henning Melber and Dieter Hinrichs
Windhoek Observer
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Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro Indeed there could be no more befitting title than A Symbol of People’s Determination, a book about the history of the Old Location, the residential area of the indigenous Africans in the then Apartheid South West Africa....
Suicide in Namibia fuelled by finances, broken relationships and social isolation
The Namibian
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September 10, 2025
Namibia’s social workers warn that financial struggles, broken relationships, and isolation are driving a rising suicide crisis. This comes as president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah recently said Namibia has the most suicides in Africa. Namibia Social...
Woman sues health ministry for rape of unconscious son at Katutura Hospital
Informante
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September 10, 2025
Staff Reporter A NAMIBIAN woman, Martha Theron (real name withheld), is suing the Ministry of Health and Social Services, claiming N$3 million in damages for breaching their legal duty of care towards her 18-year-old son, who was allegedly raped...
Health Ministry rolls out medicine track and trace system
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Ministry of Health and Social Services is in the process of implementing a track and trace barcoding system to monitor the movement of medicines from the point of central storage to the patients. Esperance Luvindao, the Health Minister, made...
Women's healthcare chronically underfunded, says Melinda French Gates
BBC
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September 10, 2025
Megha MohanBBC World Service gender and identity correspondent ShareSave Melinda French Gates has pledged a total of $1bn for women's care Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said women's health is chronically underfunded, as she...
Former ministers back luvindao’s N$221-million plan to cut out health tender middlemen
The Namibian
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September 10, 2025
Minister of health and social services Esperance Luvindao’s plan to cut middlemen in medicine procurement, potentially saving N$221 million, has won support from former ministers and economists. Former ministers Calle Schlettwein and Richard Kamwi...
Health ministry to track medicines to patients through barcoding
Windhoek Observer
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Hertta-Maria Amutenja The ministry of health and social services says it will introduce track-and-trace barcoding to monitor medicines from central storage to patients. This will be carried out under one secure facility, with long-term...
MPs push for action on Namibia’s high suicide rate
The Namibian
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September 10, 2025
Members of parliament are calling for urgent discussions on Namibia’s high suicide rate, linking it to recent tragedies and wider social and economic challenges. This comes as World Suicide Prevention Day is observed on 10 September annually. This...
Botswana government sends medication to various parts of the country
SABC News
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September 10, 2025
The Botswana government says progress has been made in getting medication to different parts of the country. This after President Duma Boko declared the state of public health emergency two weeks ago. This followed reports of shortage of medicines...
EDITORIAL: Namibia must wake up to epidemic of suicide
Namibian Sun
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September 10, 2025
As a country, we have stepped perilously close to the edge of inexcusable hypocrisy – with tragic consequences. Another day, another suicide. The crisis has only recently begun to capture wider attention, with public figures, the media and the...
OBSERVER DAILY | The middleman syndrome: How Namibia bleeds through procurement
Windhoek Observer
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The Minister of Health and Social Services recently boasted that the ministry saved more than N$200 million through better procurement practices. On the surface, this is good news. But before we clap, let’s pause. Why should we celebrate a...
SUCCESSION PLANNING, A MISSING LINK IN NAMIBIA’S PUBLIC ENTITIES
Windhoek Observer
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Lusia Kornelius and Zucky Bauleth-Nashima Succession planning within Public Entities (PEs) has been overlooked, and failure to implement it can lead to operational inefficiency, derailed strategy implementation and financial losses. When key...
Dutch tourist praises SA medics
The Citizen (South Africa)
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September 10, 2025
Netcare medics successfully treated a Dutch tourist’s spinal fracture, ensuring safe surgery, rehabilitation, and a smooth return home. A Dutch tourist who suffered a spinal compression fracture in a boating accident in St Lucia has returned to...
Health Ministry saves N$221m through direct procurement
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Ministry of Health and Social Services has potentially saved about N$221 million since it decided to procure pharmaceutical and clinical supplies directly from the suppliers. This was revealed by Minister Esperance Luvindao, who added that...
Namibia records N$58m trade deficit in July
New Era
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Namibia recorded a trade deficit of N$58 million in July 2025, marking a decline from a surplus of N$856 million recorded in June, but reflecting an improvement compared to the N$2 billion deficit registered in July 2024. This is according to...