WINDHOEK, Nov. 24 — Namibia aims to cut road fatalities and serious injuries by 50 percent by 2030, setting an ambitious target as the country launched its annual festive-season road safety campaign on Thursday. The 2025/2026 Festive Season Road Safety Campaign, running from Thursday to Jan. 16, 2026, was officially unveiled in the capital, Windhoek, under the theme “Enhancing Policing and Road Safety Through Sustainable Infrastructure Development.” Delivering the keynote address on behalf of President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, Minister of Works and Transport Veikko Nekundi underscored the scale and urgency of the challenge. “Annually, around 500 lives are lost on our roads through road crashes,” Nandi-Ndaitwah said, noting that the country has recorded 2,793 road crashes as of Nov. 10 this year, resulting in 431 fatalities and 4,565 injuries. To support the 2030 goal, the campaign launch was coupled with the inauguration of the upgraded Okapuka Road Traffic Checkpoint, a critical piece of modern road-safety infrastructure at the strategic northern gateway to Windhoek. “This facility is not just a building or a checkpoint, it is a symbol of our nation’s commitment to protecting lives, enforcing road safety, and ensuring that our transport system supports national development safely and efficiently,” she said, urging all stakeholders in the road transport subsector to intensify efforts to halve fatalities and serious injuries.
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