The Swakopmund Against Alcohol and Drug Abuse (SAADA) project has been inaugurated to disrupt the growing cycle of substance abuse among residents.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources visited green scheme projects in the Zambezi, Kavango East, and Kavango West regions. 

The visit aimed to assess the operational viability of the projects amid reports of non-productivity and dormancy. 

||Kharas Regional Council Chairperson, Joseph Isaack, has briefed the media on what he termed "concerns that have a material impact on the region's people." 

Two families at Mubiza Village in the Zambezi Region were left destitute after their houses were gutted by fire this week.

The incident was attributed to a toddler who was playing with thatched grass and is alleged to have started the fire. 

An Ondangwa family whose house burned down in June received bricks to reconstruct their four-bedroom house.

The house was gutted by fire due to an electric shock.