Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Oranjemund constituency National Youth Council (NYC) chairperson Nestor Sheimi said they are putting a strategic document in operation, which will promote socio-economic development for the youth in the towns of Oranjemund and Rosh Pinah. 

The Students Union of Namibia (SUN) has called on the University of Namibia to rename one of its campuses after the late political stalwart Mburumba Kerina who died last week. He was 89. 

The attorney general’s office has filed an application to appeal the decision of Windhoek High Court Judge Orben Sibeya who shot down their objection against the particulars of claim in an application by the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) movement to have government honour their commitment to service 200 000 erven countrywide.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced it will prohibit travellers from Namibia, Liberia and Sierra Leone from entering that country on national and foreign flights, effective as of yesterday. 

At least five schools have temporarily closed after 58 teachers and 188 learners and 11 institutional workers tested positive for Covid-19 at various schools in the Erongo region.

The Rundu Intermediate Hospital is getting overwhelmed as the hospital’s Covid-19 admissions continue to increase. 

The Namibia Medicines Regulatory Council (NMRC) registrar of medicines, Johannes Gaeseb, has reiterated the council’s stance that it has not received an application for the use of Ivermectin-related medicines supported by sufficient scientific evidence to advocate its use in preventing or treating Covid-19.

The State has added three more suspects to the matter in which former magistrate Walter ‘Rooies’ Mostert is charged by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) with 29 criminal charges.

The effects of the Covid-19 on the local economy has negatively impacted the completion of developmental projects in Omusati, governor Erginus Endjala said in his state of the regions address on Friday.

Former acting judge and long-serving regional magistrate Alexis Helena Diergaardt has died after battling Covid-19. Diergaardt succumbed to the deadly virus on Saturday in a local hospital.