The report provides a detailed analysis of the design and implementation of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) roadmaps aimed at advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Developed as part of the collaboration with the Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) of the European Commission for the development …
NAMIBIA is the fourth worst TB affected country in the world, with 9 882 patients diagnosed with the disease in 2014. Health minister Bernard Haufiku made the revelation in a speech delivered on his behalf by director of special programmes Anne-Marie Nitschke, at the National TB Day commemoration held under …
Namibia will host another first for the country when it facilitates the Ministry of Environment and Tourism's African Drought Conference under the theme: "Enhancing resilience to drought events on the African continent" at a local hotel from May 11 to 15, 2015. Africa is highly vulnerable to drought events with …
A hunter who paid $350,000 last year at a Dallas auction for a license to hunt an endangered black rhino in Namibia will be able to bring home a trophy despite protests from animal rights groups that said the sale was immoral. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said on …
Nigeria and other countries of the Sub-Sahara African region have the world's worst access to electricity, the International Energy Agency, IEA, said in its latest report. The report said that the sub-region has 13 percent of the world's population, but 48 percent of the share of the global population without …
ILLEGAL harvesting and transporting of forest products is continuing with more than two hundred fines issued during the 2012/13 and 2013/14 financial years, despite several intensified patrols and awareness campaigns conducted in the country. The annual report of the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry for the period 2013/14 that …
Oshivelo — A desperate plea for immediate government assistance has rung out from the scorched and wilted maize and mahangu fields north of Oshivelo in the Otjikoto Region. Food insecurity and subsequent starvation could threaten the livelihoods of thousands of farmers and their families. Respected community leader and two-time Mahangu …
Growing offshore and gas exploration as well as increasing maritime traffic at Namibia's ports prompted the Ministry of Works and Transport last Friday to launch coastal sensitivity maps for oil spills at Walvis Bay. The maps are regarded as tactical and strategic elements that are an important component of the …
CABINET has approved the Ministry of Environment and Tourism's proposal to de-horn rhinos in Namibia. Environment ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyanda confirmed that Cabinet has given its stamp of approval to the ministry to begin de-horning rhinos as part of its overall anti-poaching strategy. Last week, minister Uahekua Herunga pointed out …
Ahead of the celebrations of Global Handwashing Day on Wednesday, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) here has raised the concern that one out of five schools nationwide lack toilet facilities. Global Handwashing Day is a campaign to motivate and mobilise millions around the world to wash their hands with …
Some 1.7 billion people worldwide depend on livestock for a living, among which a billion are poor. In Namibia, more than 70 percent of its 2.2 million inhabitants are directly or indirectly dependent on agriculture, especially livestock farming. A large proportion of poor livestock keepers are highly exposed to climate …
EFFORTS are underway to put in place an inter-governmental action plan for the Benguela current seabirds. The Atlantic Ocean's marine-life filled Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) is shared by Namibia, Angola and South Africa. Sergey Dereliev, the technical officer of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds …
Angola and southern neighbor Namibia signed an accord to manage the Cuvelai river basin whose waters are shared by the two southwest African countries, according to state-controlled Jornal de Angola. Two-thirds of the 150,000-square-kilometer (58,000 square mile) watershed is in Namibia, a land marked by the Kalahari desert that’s one …
Large areas of Namibia are covered by farmland, which is also used by game and predator species. Because it can cause conflicts with farmers when predators, such as cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), hunt livestock, we assessed whether livestock constitutes a significant part of the cheetah diet by analysing the stable isotope …
Namibia won’t withdraw permits granted to hunt desert elephants, a group of the pachyderms that live in the country’s arid northwest, despite protests, the country’s Environment and Tourism minister said. While decision to allow the hunting of nine elephants, most of them classified as so-called desert elephants, has sparked a …
Rio Tinto Group’s Rossing uranium said its planned water desalination plant will cost about 200 million Namibian dollars ($19 million), the Namibian newspaper reported. The facility in the southern African nation will save Rossing as much as 16 million Namibian dollars in water costs, the Windhoek-based newspaper reported, citing Rossing …
Over 20,000 African elephants were poached across the continent in 2013 according to a report released today by the CITES Secretariat. Although the sharp upward trend in illegal elephant killing observed since the mid-2000s, which had peaked in 2011, is levelling off, poaching levels remain alarmingly high and continue to …
This mapping study, which examines the role of higher education in contributing to climate resilient development pathways, is the first of its kind in southern Africa, and in Africa more widely. Since more holistic approaches to climate change and climate compatible development are relatively new knowledge production areas in southern …
An operation in Namibia owned by the same parent company suffered a breach of its leach tank, injuring employees A week before a uranium mine in Kakadu National Park spilled a million litres of radioactive slurry a Rio Tinto-owned African mine had a similar accident. Rio Tinto owns Energy Resources …
Spells of drought in southern African this year have hit agricultural output and hurt economic growth in countries such as Zambia and Angola, underscoring the lingering importance of farming to the resource-rich region's prosperity. Cutting their 2013 economic growth estimates, both oil producing Angola and copper producer Zambia have cited …
The world's fastest land animal is in trouble. The cheetah, formerly found across much of Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, has been extirpated from at least 27 countries and is now on the Red List of threatened species. Namibia holds by far the largest remaining population of …
