A lack of health facilities in Ombambihaka in Ruacana compels many Ovahimba women to give birth at home. Daniel Arona the spokesman for the headman of Ombambihaka, Mbasilika Kavari, says the village ...
WINDHOEK, April 15 (Xinhua) -- The Ovahimba tribe of Namibia, popular for their nomadic pastoral lifestyle, have been left with no option but to live in 'unusual' communities amid a COVID-19 pandemic ...
Windhoek — A documentary film on the Ovahimba people, "Keep the Dance Alive", by Rina Sherman will be premiered at a major American film and video festival in New York on Sunday November 11. "A rare ...
Vera De Cauwer was Principal Investigator of the SCIONA project that received funding from the European Union under grant agreement FED/2017/394-802. The Kaokoveld region, covering north-western ...
The AIDS epidemic has struck one of the most isolated ethnic groups in southern Africa, the OvaHimba people of northern Namibia and southern Angola. But many in the community remain in denial, ...
WINDHOEK, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Located about 740 Kilometers out of Namibia's capital, Windhoek, is the Kunene region which houses the town of Opuwo, where a largely nomadic and pastoral community of ...
It is a 700km drive northwest of the Namibian capital of Windhoek along a tarred road to Opuwo, a town of roughly 15?000 people. The OvaHimba, pastoralists, who tend Nguni cattle in the drought-prone ...