Most health facilities in the Kunene Region have access to information and communication technology.

The region has three district hospitals, three health centres, 28 clinics, 222 outreach points and one health point.

Southern Africa emerged as a suicide epicentre, dominating the list of African countries with the highest suicide rates, as World Health Organisation data unearthed a regional crisis.

Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema has accorded that country's former Vice President Guy Scott, who died on Wednesday, a five-day period of national mourning.

The 82-year-old Zambian-born Guy Lindsay Scott was at some point the first and only white president of an independent African country.

Otjozondjupa Regional Council has officially handed over a fully equipped ambulance to Kalkfeld Clinic, which has been operating without one for years.

The ambulance is a donation from NamPort's social investment fund, which also purchased another one earmarked for Gam Clinic in Tsumkwe Constituency.

The more than 219 million dollar Naute-Keetmanshoop water pipeline construction project reflects the principle of sustainable development by investing in long-term economic prosperity instead of responding to escalating crises.