CoW launches Ebikes pilot project  

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The City of Windhoek (CoW) has launched the Ebike4Windhoek pilot project as part of its effort to reduce carbon emissions and increase transport options.

#BeFree Youth Campus officially opened

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The #BeFree movement has opened the doors of the much-anticipated multipurpose youth centre.

The launch was attended by high-level government officials and the first ladies of Angola and Siera Leon.

The #BeFree Youth Campus, which is located in Katutura, was just an idea a few years ago.

 High Court rules against Menzies Aviation 

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The Windhoek High Court has ruled that Menzies Aviation has no legal obligation to provide ground handling services at the Hosea Kutako International Airport (HKIA) and no right to insist on offering these services there. 

Liberation struggle icon Hadino Hishongwa has died

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Liberation struggle icon and former Ambassador Hadino Hishongwa has died.

Aged 80, Hishongwa died this morning at Ongwediva Medipark after an illness.

Hishongwa served as a Member of Parliament in the National Assembly from 1990 to 2005.

TKCS office inaugurated

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The Ministers of Transport for Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa have inaugurated the office of the Trans Kalahari Corridor Secretariat (TKCS) in Windhoek.

This came after the three countries signed an agreement on the development and management of the Kalahari Corridor in 2003.

Africa's transport sector urged to redouble intra-trade efforts

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The South African Minister of Transport, Sindisiwe Chikunga, says Africa's transport sector needs to redouble its intra-trade efforts to optimise the Trans Kalahari Corridor.

She was speaking at the Trans-Kalahari Corridor ministerial council meeting in Windhoek.

Amb. Hadino Hishongwa mourned

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Family members, friends, neighbours, and government officials flocked to the homestead of the late former Namibian Ambassador to Botswana, Hadino Hishongwa, who died on Friday morning.

CoW embroiled in web of financial complexities

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The City of Windhoek finds itself embroiled in a web of financial complexities, encompassing a loan default conundrum, a public-private partnership (PPP) scandal, and the revelation of a forged invoice linked to double-dipping.