Seventh Annual Honors for Employers and HR Professionals is Accepting Nominations FAIRFAX, Va., March 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Stevie Awards has issued the call for entries for the seventh annual Stevie® Awards for Great Employers, which honor the world’s best companies to work for and the human resources teams, professionals, suppliers, and new […]
Luanda – The joint military exercises of the navies of the countries that share the Atlantic Ocean, known as “Obangame 2022”, ended Thursday with simulations of approaching drug traffickers and rescue on the high seas. Angola, with 120 active personnel, led zone A, which included Brazil, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Namibia, the latter a candidate member
Namibia has been a presidential democracy since independence from South Africa in 1990. Much executive power is vested in the head of state, who is elected directly every five years in parallel to the National Assembly. The South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) has held an absolute parliamentary majority since 1990. Hage Geingob was elected president of Namibia in 2014,
President Hage Geingob has declared a period of national mourning in honour of former Zambian President Rupiah Banda, the Presidency has announced. In a statement issued late Wednesday afternoon, the Presidency said the declaration is consistent with Article 32 of the Namibian Constitution, read together with the Conferment of National Honours Act. “His Excellency Dr Hage G Geingob has declared
Namibia’s Olympic silver medallist, Christine Mboma, set a new national record time of 11.15 seconds in the100 metre race at the Athletics South Africa Grand Prix meeting in Bloemfontein on Wednesday. Former national record holder, Beatrice Masilingi was second in 11.24 seconds, while South Africa’s Sherley Nekhubvi came third in 11.49 seconds. Masilingi’s time was 0.04 seconds outside her personal
A middle-aged man was shot and killed Tuesday morning on a commercial farm situated approximately 100 kilometres east of Grootfontein in the Otjozondjupa Region. Namibian Police Force crime investigations coordinator in the region, Deputy Commissioner Naukalemo Andreas on Thursday told Nampa in an interview that a 65-year-old female commercial farmer was arrested and charged with murder on Wednesday. “The deceased’s
A pensioner died from a snake bite at Onakapya village in the Oshana Region, the police reported on Thursday. Namibian Police Force spokesperson in the Oshana Region, Inspector Thomas Aiyambo told Nampa the 63-year-old woman was harvesting worms along with other inhabitants of the village at a cattle post when the incident occurred on Wednesday. The woman and another pensioner,
The Namibian Police Force (NamPol)’s traffic division on Wednesday announced its plan to conduct intensified road patrols and set up roadblocks on the B1 and B2 national roads, this long weekend. The Inspector General of the Namibian Police Force, Lieutenant General Sebastian Ndeitunga in a media statement on Tuesday said the operation, to run from Friday until Monday, is aimed
Rural tourism and agriculture could hold the key to addressing the avalanche of social and economic challenges Namibia faces – if the government and the private sector take the necessary interventions and deliberate funding for optimum production. This is according to Ombu Capital founder, Vetumbuavi Mungunda, who said the untapped economy sustains about 70 per cent of the population. During
The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism on Thursday launched a project involving private sector engagement and community inclusion in World Heritage properties in efforts to address the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. The ‘Promoting Sustainable Tourism and Private Sector Engagement for Inclusive Community Development in Response to the COVID-19 crisis’ project is a collaboration between the German Development Corporation (GIZ)
The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) and Northern Regional Electricity Distributor (Nored) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the sharing of technical information on population census and electricity infrastructural development and distribution. In a joint media statement on Tuesday, both companies agreed that they will start to share technical information, collaborate and produce data that would benefit themselves
“Two words; BIG MACHINES. This is what inspired me to get into mining, as I have always been fascinated by mega machines, from the array of pumps, to crushers, to mills to the colossal haul trucks that the mine has no shortage of.” These were the words of 30-year-old Othilie Hoveka, a qualified Mechanical Engineer currently acting as a Maintenance
Le fournisseur de solutions de vérification d’identité de renommée mondiale, Shufti Pro, a annoncé avoir levé 20 millions de dollars en financement de série A dirigé par Updata Partners pour accélérer l’expansion mondiale et améliorer le développement des produits. LONDRES, 17 mars 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Shufti Pro, un leader mondial du marché des solutions de vérification […]
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