Author: Staff Reporter (Staff Reporter )

Oshana governor Elia Irimari yesterday said his office has taken an initiative to absorb the demonstrating children of the liberation struggle into jobs and training.

The stray dogs problem in Okahandja has reached epic proportions, with the Garden Town’s hospital having recorded an increase in dog bites in various locations.

The former CEO of the Omuthiya Town Council, Samuel Mbango, has failed in his bid to return to the position. 

Community members of Kasika in the Ngoma circuit of the Zambezi region have rejected the principal who was chosen to lead a local school. 

Trial-awaiting inmates at the Tsumeb police station are alleging police brutality after two were reportedly assaulted by officers earlier this week, as the force carried out a routine search for illegal items.

The clinical branch chief for the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Namibia Dr Steven Hong said the public health guidance in other countries of not wearing a mask after being fully vaccinated would not be appropriate to apply locally. 

The home affairs ministry has reversed an earlier decision and granted permission to a same-sex couple to bring their twin daughters – born through surrogacy in South Africa – home to Namibia.

Helao Nafidi mayor Darius Shaalukeni has hit back at critics against the reappointment of CEO Inge Ipinge, saying age is not a factor for someone to be employed on a contract basis. Ipinge is well over 60 years and has been CEO of the local authority since 2011. 

A man accused of committing several rape offences is a danger to women and children and should not be released on bail for “the good of the community”, the State has argued. 

 The health ministry is investigating the matter in which a 62-year-old man died while admitted to a hospital in Windhoek after allegedly receiving his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on 17 May 2021.