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Zambezi farmer holds out hope for rain

NAMPA
2024-12-02
KATIMA MULILO, 02 December 2024 - Well-known Zambezi resident and retired police commissioner, Bolen Sankwasa, who has ventured into subsistence farming since his retirement from public office in 2011. (Photo by: Lydia Pitiri) NAMPA KATIMA MULILO, 02 December 2024 - Well-known Zambezi resident and retired police commissioner, Bolen Sankwasa, who has ventured into subsistence farming since his retirement from public office in 2011. (Photo by: Lydia Pitiri) NAMPA
By Michael Mutonga Liswaniso
KATIMA MULILO, 02 DEC (NAMPA) – Well-known Zambezi resident and retired Police Commissioner, Bolen Sankwasa is hopeful that more rains will fall in the Zambezi Region in the upcoming weeks and enable communal farmers like him to cultivate the land.
Zambezi and other parts of Namibia are drought stricken - a situation that forced President Nangolo Mbumba to declare a national state of emergency in May this year.
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KATIMA MULILO, 02 December 2024 – Retired police commissioiner Bolen Sankwasa says he is proud to have been able “put his voice in the box” during the Presidential and National Assembly elections. (Photo by: Michael Mutonga Liswaniso) NAMPA KATIMA MULILO, 02 December 2024 – Retired police commissioiner Bolen Sankwasa says he is proud to have been able “put his voice in the box” during the Presidential and National Assembly elections. (Photo by: Michael Mutonga Liswaniso) NAMPA
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