Erongo governor calls for urgent decongestion

NAMPA

2025-10-20

SWAKOPMUND, 20 October 2025 - Erongo Governor Natalia | Goagoses embracing and consoling 31 year old Zelda Goses, the mother of the two little girls who died in a shack fire at the DRC Informal settlement last week. She is accompanied by Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Swakopmund Blasius Goraseb and Suama Kuutondokwa. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 20 OCT (NAMPA) – Erongo Governor Natalia |Goagoses has called for urgent action to decongest informal settlements following the shack fire that claimed the lives of two young girls in Swakopmund’s DRC informal settlement last week.
The fire broke out shortly after midnight. A neighbour managed to rescue a seven-year-old girl after kicking open the door of the burning shack, but two younger children aged one and four were trapped insid...

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SWAKOPMUND, 20 October 2025 - 31 year old Zelda Goses (middle) the mother of the two little girls who died in a shack fire in DRC last week, seated with her aunt and sister, as well as one of her surviving daughter Veronica Goses. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

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