Namibia

Three suspected UNITA rebels were shot and killed last week near Namibia's northern border, Namibian defence officials said at the weekend.

the Preliminary Report of the 2000 Namibia Demographic and Health Survey has recently been published. The report contains around 40 pages. Chapter 1 provides a brief background, while the methodology is described in Chapter 2. The main findings of the survey are contained in the third chapter, which highlights the most important results at output and outcome level. Chapter 4 provides a summary and concluding remarks. The key results appear condensed in table form in Annex 2. The report may be...read more

The Food and Nutrition unit of the Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) recently received WHO support to contract a local Web site developer to create a very comprehensive site addressing breast-feeding in Namibia.

Namibia has received part of the US$750,000 World Bank stash to develop its Country Gateway in line with the Bank's Development Gateway project.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that it expected to secure funding soon to keep its food pipeline to refugees in Namibia flowing beyond March.

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