It's relish galore at Amarika and neighboring villages in the Omusati Region, as residents are currently harvesting the popular worms called Okatalashe, which live on thorn trees.

President Hage Geingob has described Hilde Kapitaholo Amunyela Shimweetheleni, a veteran of the liberation struggle, as a fearless woman and unwavering revolutionary.

The late Shimwetheleni was buried at the Omungulu-gwombashe memorial site in the Omusati Region.

The regional leadership of the Former Plan Combatant Association (FPCA) which was formed to strengthen the SWAPO Party’s support base, to ensure it remains relevant and popular among its electorates as it was during the country’s liberation struggle, this morning met with SWAPO Party regional leadership headed by SW

One of the top-performing schools in the Omusati Region, Onawa Secondary School, was robbed of N$50,000 in school hostel fees as well as voluntary contributions during the morning hours of Wednesday.

Yesterday, the school of excellence did not begin on a positive note.

The Northern Namibia Farmers Seed Growers Cooperative, within the Omahanene Crop Research Station in the Omusati Region, is advising crop farmers to use improved certified seeds for high yields in a short period of time as opposed to traditional ones.

Some frustrated residents of the Onesi and Tsandi constituencies in the Omusati Region have expressed dissatisfaction with the delay in the upgrading of Epalela-Onesi-Tsandi gravel road to bitumen standards.

Namwater has completed the construction of the water canal at a cost of N$93.5 million.

The construction of a 5.8-kilometer canal, which stretches from Omahenene to Olushandja in the Omusati Region, commenced in February last year.

The Naiti Combined School in Okalongo Circuit of the Omusati Region is in need of extra classrooms, an administration block, chairs and desks, as well as teacher houses and ablution facilities.

With the dignity of schoolgirls considered a key factor in school drop-outs, the United Nations Population Fund has donated sanitary kits to learners at Odeitotela Combined School in the Omusati Region.

The kits are part of a N$7.4 million grant by the Japanese government and are meant for eight regions.

The Naiti Combined School in Okalongo Circuit in Omusati Region is in need of an extra classroom, an administration block, teacher's houses, chairs and tables, and ablution facilities.

The school started as a mission school in 1972 and was transformed into a government school in the early 1980s.