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RUNDU – Urban and rural development minister Erastus Uutoni has ordered the Rundu Town Council to immediately terminate an agreement with Redforce Debt Management.

The Roads Authority yesterday claimed representatives of a local and Chinese contractor had mutually entered into an agreement with it to allow the authorities to make payments directly into an account nominated by the two parties for a road construction contract. 

The Windhoek High Court will deliver on 28 October its ruling on the appeal lodged by suspended Fishcor CEO Mike Nghipunya after deputy chief magistrate Ingrid Unengu refused him bail in the ongoing Fishrot matter. 

The civil matter in which forex trader Michael Amushelelo, who was last year arrested on charges that he contravened the Banking Act, is seeking to have two search and seizure warrants authorised by a Windhoek magistrate reviewed and set aside, started yesterday in the High Court. 

WALVIS BAY – The loved ones of Shannon Wasserfall say they were relieved after forensic experts positively identified her more than six months after her disappearance.

Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) protesters have welcomed government’s response to their petition in which they pressured the authorities to take adequate action to tackle increasing violence, especially against women and children. 

Swanu parliamentarian Tangeni Iijambo was yesterday slammed in the National Assembly over his comments about women being too dependent on men. 

The murder case of a nine-year-old girl, who was allegedly assaulted to death in January this year in Windhoek North, was postponed to next year due to outstanding laboratory results. 

The United Nations agency, World Food Programme (WFP), says it has so far spearheaded a N$3 million project that ended in August this year by providing emergency food and nutrition assistance to vulnerable communities in Namibia. 

 Agriculture minister Calle Schlettwein yesterday said he will welcome with open arms a suggestion by the Zambian government to assist Namibia in containing the locust swarm in the Zambezi region.