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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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Namibia

Local Conference of Youth Namibia commences today

The Local Conference of Youth Namibia commences today. This event seeks to align with our established objectives and develop a robust youth climate strategy and action plan. Throughout the conference, participants will engage in interactive sessions designed to gather valuable insights, including targets and indicators, that will help shape the outcomes of our collective efforts in addressing climate change. LCOY's Mariah Willem:  

todayOctober 23, 2024 46

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Africa

Young, urban, African: research explores what it means to be a good citizen in Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania

  By Amy S. Patterson, Sewanee: The University of the South; Megan Hershey, Whitworth University, and Tracy Kuperus, Calvin University   Young people between the ages of 18 and 35 make up two-thirds of Africa’s population. The number is expected to reach 75% by 2030. They live in an environment of rapid urbanisation, high unemployment rates and poor state services. These are some of the factors that incline young people […]

todayAugust 8, 2024 30

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Local

Promoting employee entrepreneurship – Nedbank Namibia hosts successful employee market da

    On 24 May Nedbank Namibia proudly hosted its inaugural employee market day, which provided a platform for staff to showcase and sell their products and promote their services. The employee market day took place at Freedom Plaza next to the Nedbank campus. Employees from the various departments within the bank transformed the area into a vibrant marketplace and set up 18 stalls that displayed a wide array of […]

todayMay 30, 2024 8

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Africa

How expensive it is to be poor: Prof. Abdoulaye Diabaté inspires global action against malaria at TED2024

    In a stirring address at TED2024, Prof. Abdoulaye Diabaté, Head of Medical Entomology and Parasitology at the Research Institute in Health Sciences in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, and Principal Investigator of Target Malaria Burkina Faso, shared his journey with malaria and his resolute commitment to eradicating it. Prof. Diabaté's talk shed light on the devastating toll of malaria, particularly in Africa, and stressed the urgent need for transformative solutions. […]

todayApril 30, 2024 41

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Africa

Why is Ghana so hot this year? An expert explains

    By Yaw Agyeman Boafo, University of Ghana   Ghana’s meteorological agency and the state’s health service have issued warnings about a period of very high temperatures expected in the first half of 2024 around the country. Ghana’s experience is part of a global phenomenon: record temperatures were recorded in 2023. Yaw Agyeman Boafo, the programmes coordinator and a senior research fellow at the University of Ghana’s Centre for […]

todayApril 8, 2024 41

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Local

Robinson, Lewis win Gobabis Nedbank for Good second leg

      Celonika Robinson and Johan Lewis emerged victorious in the second leg of the 2024 Nedbank for Good Series, which took place at the Gobabis Golf Club last Saturday. Lewis scored 39 points ahead of Burger Bergh in second, who scored 34 points, and Willem Wermann in third place, with 32 points counted in. Fourth place belonged to Bertus Opperman, who scored 32 points counted out. In the […]

todayApril 8, 2024 11

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Africa

Making short films is a powerful way to learn job skills: 5 ways it prepares students for work

Making short films can change the way people learn. ASphotowed/iStock/Getty Plus     By Wendy Smidt, Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Zayd Waghid, Cape Peninsula University of Technology   The world of work is changing all the time. Technology is driving innovation and productivity, leading to the creation of new industries and employment opportunities. This means people need new skills to meet the demands of an ever-changing economy. While […]

todayApril 2, 2024 6

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Environment

Sewage leaks put South Africa’s freshwater at risk: how citizen scientists are helping clean up

  By Jim Taylor, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Mark Graham, University of KwaZulu-Natal   Across South Africa, sewage systems are leaking and contaminating the country’s freshwater. Involving the affected communities can help prevent this pollution hazard, as a group of 15 citizen scientists in KwaZulu-Natal province have shown. Their community water monitoring programme, working with municipal authorities, has managed to prevent raw sewage from flooding into rivers. The young, unemployed […]

todayMarch 15, 2024 43

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Business / Economics

Wapa Nawa’s plastic brick innovation: a sustainable solution to Namibia’s housing crisis and environmental goals

By Dilia Mazula  In a groundbreaking development, Wapa Nawa, a recycling centre located in Rundu, has officially launched Namibia's first office constructed entirely from plastic bricks, an initiative aimed at simultaneously addressing housing needs and environmental sustainability challenges in the country.  Ladislaus Shiketere, the CEO of the project, shared the centre's mission to provide an alternative to conventional building materials, saying, "bricks are becoming more expensive, the use of cement […]

todayDecember 7, 2023 66

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