Khorixas households in need of humanitarian relief: !Gobs

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2024-08-07

KHORIXAS, 16 May 2019 - The Khorixas Town Council's office complex. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

OPUWO, 07 AUG (NAMPA) – Khorixas constituency councillor, Sebastian !Gobs has said there is a need for humanitarian relief for 2 347 households in the constituency due to persistent drought in the Kunene Region.
!Gobs in an interview with Nampa on Wednesday said the region’s 10-year lack of rainfall has exacerbated the constituency’s food crisis as the soil is too dry for farming, and nearly 90 per cent of pastoralist farmers have lost their live...

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