Social activist Michael Amushelelo, currently an inmate at the Windhoek Correctional Facility, has reportedly gone on a hunger strike to highlight his quest for freedom.

Amushelelo has been incarcerated since March 21, following an unemployment demonstration in the capital.

The Outjo Town Council has drilled a larger borehole to increase the water supply to the town and address water supply challenges.

Residents of Grunau Settlement in the ||Kharas Region now have uninterrupted access to water, thanks to the NamWater Reservoir. Before, residents had been subjected to a mandatory rationing of water for years.

The SWAPO Party Vice President says Namibians can only unite if they avoid tribalism and regionalism, which derail development and negatively affect people at the grass-roots level. Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah made these remarks at the party's rally at Outapi.

Dry-Genice Higoam and Wilbard Mbenzi emerged as the overall winners of this year's National Skills Competition, which concluded at Ongwediva on Saturday.