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Schlettwein said former president Hifikepunye Pohamba and his wife have no obligation towards the couple that is residing on their private land.

President Hage Geingob yesterday disclosed that Namibia will be supporting the candidature of former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for the director general post of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

SWAKOPMUND – Decent housing has become a reality for 31 members of the Shack Dwellers Federation of Namibia (SFDN) members at Swakopmund.  

Gender minister Doreen Sioka says multi-sectoral response was crucial in the fight against sexual and gender-based violence. 

Finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi yesterday tabled the mid-term budget for the 2020/21 financial year, consisting of N$841.6 million, with no new allocations being made but rather reallocation to priority areas. 

RUNDU – In the past nine months, about 634 cases of scabies have been recorded among the San community in the two Kavango regions, with the highest numbers reported in the Ndama informal settlement in Rundu.

WALVIS BAY – A desperate mother whose daughter has been missing for three years has accused the police at Rehoboth of not doing enough to locate her only daughter.

The growth and acceptance of opposition politics may be the main factor that more constituencies are to be contested in the upcoming regional council and local authority elections scheduled for 25 November 2020.

The National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo) yesterday announced it has severed ties with long-serving Okakarara constituency councillor Vetaruhe Kandorozu whom the party accused him of de-campaigning ahead of next month’s regional council and local authority elections. 

A Rehoboth man admitted yesterday in the Windhoek High Court that he murdered his girlfriend of 17 years and mother of his two children by hitting her with the sharp end of a spade several times on her head.