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YOUNG OBSERVER | Understanding cervical cancer: A comprehensive health guide

YOUNG OBSERVER | Understanding cervical cancer: A comprehensive health guide

Cervical cancer remains one of the most significant yet preventable threats to women’s health globally. For young people navigating the transition into adulthood, understanding the biological mechanisms, risk factors, and modern preventative measures associated with this disease is a vital component of long-term wellness. Unlike many other forms of cancer that are linked primarily to ageing or unpredictable genetic mutations, cervical cancer has a clearly identified primary cause: the human papillomavirus (HPV). By stripping away the stigma and focusing on the clinical facts, we can view cervical cancer not as an inevitable shadow but as a manageable health challenge that…
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YOUNG OBSERVER | #UNMUTED 

Nations are not built in moments of celebration. They are built in the long stretches of ordinary time that follow. Flags are raised, constitutions are signed, and history marks these events as turning points. Yet the true test of freedom begins after the applause fades, when a people must decide what to do with the future that has been placed in their hands. Namibia now lives firmly within that quieter chapter of its story. More than three decades have passed since independence transformed the political destiny of the country. A generation has grown up knowing freedom not as a dream…
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BoN eyes gold and retail bonds to boost stability

BoN eyes gold and retail bonds to boost stability

Chamwe Kiara  The Bank of Namibia (BoN) says it is close to finalising agreements under its gold accumulation strategy as it moves to diversify the country’s foreign exchange reserves. Nicholas Mukasa, director of financial markets, said the central bank remains committed to the gold acquisition programme as part of efforts to strengthen economic stability amid global uncertainty. “We are fairly advanced in concluding the agreements that will allow us to execute the accumulation of gold. We are close; we are very advanced with the gold acquisition programme,” Mukasa said. He said the bank has engaged local mines and approved refineries…
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Celsius to delist from NSX 

Celsius to delist from NSX 

Chamwe Kaira  Celsius Resources Limited will terminate its secondary listing on the Namibia Securities Exchange (NSX) after receiving approval from the exchange’s listings division. The company, registered in Namibia as an external company under Registration No. F/ACN 009 162 949 and trading on the NSX under the share code CER (ISIN: AU000000CLA6), said the decision forms part of a strategic shift in its operations. In a notice to shareholders, the board said the company’s primary focus is now in the Philippines and that maintaining a secondary listing on the NSX is no longer financially feasible. “The board of directors of…
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Namsnails cultivates snail industry in the Namib

Namsnails cultivates snail industry in the Namib

Chamwe Kaira  SSnail farming is not common in the arid Erongo region, but Namsnails Farming (Pty) Ltd has established operations on the edge of the Namib Desert and aims to build a place in Namibia’s agricultural and export sector. Chief executive officer André Mouton said the company breeds Cornu aspersum maxima, known as Gros Gris, for the escargot market. “Our present installed capacity allows for approximately 100 to 150 tonnes of live hibernated snails per annum, with the ability to scale further as infrastructure is expanded,” Mouton said. He said production is currently focused on the local and regional market,…
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Chamber of Mines rebuts ILO remarks on jobs, ownership 

Chamber of Mines rebuts ILO remarks on jobs, ownership 

Staff Writer The Chamber of Mines of Namibia has rejected remarks made by International Labour Organization (ILO) country director Philile Masuku during a recent public dialogue on decent work in the mining sector. The chamber said mining is capital-intensive and highly mechanised, which means it employs fewer people directly than sectors such as agriculture and fishing. It said this does not reflect the full employment impact of the industry. According to the 2023 Population and Housing Census Labour Force Report, 14 337 people were employed in mining and quarrying in 2023, representing 2.6% of employed Namibians.  The chamber said this…
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NEFF oil bill support sparks trust debate

NEFF oil bill support sparks trust debate

Allexer Namundjembo The Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters’ (NEFF) support for the Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Amendment Bill has sparked debate about trust and political alignment within the opposition. On Wednesday, NEFF member of parliament Kalimbo Iipumbu told the House that the party supports the bill.  “The President represents the collective sovereignty will of the Namibian people; therefore, vesting final approval authority in the Presidency elevates petroleum governance from narrow bureaucratic control to a matter of national strategic national asset that will determine Namibia’s economic future for generations,” Iipumbu said.  He said the bill marks a step toward reclaiming Namibia’s petroleum…
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Tsumeb municipality accused of forging building plans

Tsumeb municipality accused of forging building plans

Allexer Namundjembo The engineering department at the Tsumeb Municipality has been accused of forging building plans and approving designs that allegedly do not meet municipal standards. Sources who spoke to the Windhoek Observer on condition of anonymity claim that some engineers alter or redesign building plans that initially failed to meet requirements and later approve them for use. The Windhoek Observer has seen a building plan originally drawn last year by Star Innovations.  The version later submitted to the municipality carried different contact details from those of the company named on the document. When contacted, the founder of Star Innovations…
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The door or the sword: Why Africa will no longer ask permission to exist

The door or the sword: Why Africa will no longer ask permission to exist

Paul T. Shipale (with inputs by Folito Nghitongovali Diawara Gaspar) There is a Swahili saying that cuts to the heart of our modern predicament: "Wakala huona tu kile anacho uwezo wa utambuzi wa kuona." Translated, it means an agent only sees what they have the cognition to see. For decades, the world has looked at Africa and seen only what its limited cognition allowed: a continent of problems, not solutions; of resources, not resourcefulness; of people to be saved, not partners to be respected. That blindness ends now. When the spotlights dimmed on the 39th African Union Summit, something fundamental…
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Khomas region at a tipping point 

Namibia cannot afford to treat the latest census figures as just another statistical update. A 44.6% population increase in the Khomas region since 2011, pushing the population to nearly 495 000, is not merely demographic growth. It is a structural shift with profound economic, fiscal and social consequences for the entire country. Khomas, anchored by Windhoek, is not just another region. It is Namibia’s administrative headquarters, financial nerve centre and primary commercial hub. What happens in Khomas does not stay in Khomas. It reverberates across the nation’s economy and political system. And right now, the warning lights are flashing. Urbanisation…
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