About 29 reed houses have been destroyed in a fire at Aussenkehr settlement in ||Kharas Region this week.

The acting Police Regional Crime Coordinator for ||Kharas, Detective Chief Inspector Jochobetha Angukku, confirmed the fire incident that broke out on Tuesday morning.

She said the cause of the fire is not yet known.

But, according to an eyewitness, the fire started burning from the roof of a reed house that was locked and quickly spread to other makeshift structures.

A joyous atmosphere of the festive season has been shattered for 19 displaced families residing at Windhoek's Katutura Youth Complex.

A destructive fire tore through their place of residence, leaving families devastated and homes reduced to ashes.

Community members made efforts to extinguish the fire despite the challenge of the water tap being approximately 100 metres away.

The emergency services responded to the distress call, deploying firefighters to tackle the inferno.

About 30 residents of Aussenkehr, whose reed houses were destroyed by a fire two weeks ago, are still being housed in tents.  

The blazing fire displaced 57 households and claimed a life. 

The fire started at one of the reed houses before spreading quickly, leaving destruction in its wake. It claimed the life of the owner of the house where the fire started. Willem Shiyoleni burned beyond recognition.

A Zambian truck driver narrowly escaped death at the Ngoma border post in the Zambezi Region when his parked truck caught fire while he was sleeping. 

The driver is reported to have arrived at Ngoma Post Tuesday morning from Zambia via Botswana in transit to Walvis Bay, transporting copper.

Due to delays by the clearing agents, he had to stay overnight at the border between Namibia and Botswana.

The driver was awoken by another truck driver who was parked behind him at around eleven o'clock in the night when his truck caught fire.

A fire erupted on the upper floor of a hostel building at Ella Du Plessis High School on Wednesday morning. 

The City of Windhoek's fire brigade successfully extinguished the flames. 

Earlier this year, the students were moved from this building as it was declared unfit for habitation.

However, the building was used for storing such things as matrasses. 

Carlo Louw, Head of Operations at the Windhoek Fire Brigade, says that the exact cause of the fire remains under investigation, with suspicion leaning towards an electrical fault. 

A fire broke out at the Directorate of Water Supply and Sanitation Coordination in Rundu, destroying more than N$360,000 worth of water infrastructure.

The senior administrative officer in that directorate, Josef Shinkanda, says what caused the fire is still unknown.

It was all hands on deck as various people at the scene tried to extinguish the fire.

According to Shinkanda, the fire started at around 10:00 on Tuesday.

Two families in Kongola have lost everything in a fire that started while they were at church.

Nora Samba, a 38-year-old woman from Tulikonge Village in the Mwanzi area, is the most affected after all three houses in her courtyard burned to ashes.

Samba was told upon arriving from church that the fire had allegedly started from the neighbour's house and caught and spread to her thatched roof.

The unemployed mother of seven and one grandchild said that she has no way of recovering her belongings, including her children's school uniforms and books.

The fire that ravaged several shacks at Walvis Bay last night has prompted residents to make fresh demands for serviced land. Families on Khomas Hochland Street were left destitute last night after a shack fire ravaged their homes and belongings.

The victims, who say they were traumatized by the blaze, spent the whole day cleaning the area. Diana Murumbua stressed to nbc News that the outbreak of shack fires is usually a result of congestion, and there is a need for municipalities to speed up the delivery of plots.

Twenty-six shacks were ravaged by fire last night at Tutaleni in Walvis Bay.

Residents in the Khomas Hochland street at Tutaleni Walvis Bay were rudely awakened by a huge fire that started from one of the shacsks.

According to one of the fire victims, when he woke up, he observed that his brothers' shack was on fire.

Police say the fire eventually spread to other shacks, leaving families destitute.

Although most of their belongings were damaged, no injuries or deaths were reported.

Another devastating fire broke out in Tulinawa, Swakopmund's Mondesa residential area, leaving 23 residents homeless after about six dwellings burned to ashes.

The fire was caused by a gas stove explosion, and fortunately, there were no reported casualties or injuries in the incident.

The windy weather conditions caused the fires to spread rapidly, resulting in the destruction of shacks built from highly flammable materials such as wooden boxes, plastic, and hardboard.