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A lead investigator into the Fishrot bribery scandal claimed there was a lack of cooperation from a number of countries and jurisdictions, including Angola, whose authorities are refusing to assist their Namibian counterparts in ongoing investigations. 

The ruling Swapo has finally formalised the closing up of the independent candidacy loophole following a virtual extraordinary congress at the weekend.

Some student bodies have approached lawyers in an attempt to stop the Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund (NSFAF) from procuring laptops for students with their non-tuition fees. 

Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen has sentenced an Omaheke farmworker to an effective 32-year jail term for what she described a horrific murder.

KEETMANSHOOP - Regional council and local authority elections should go ahead as scheduled by the Electoral Commission of Namibia, the Landless Peoples Movement’s election director, Ziggy Isaacks has said. 

Former tourism director Sem Shikongo has been appointed as the new senior programme manager on access and benefit-sharing (ABS) at the Secretariat of the Convention of Biological Diversity. 

Omukulunhu welongo koshitukulwa shaMusati Laban Shapange, okwa xulifa.  Otaku hokololwa Shapange a xulifila moshipangelo shaNandjokwe okupendukila onghela nokwa itavelwa kutya efyo laye ola etifwa koCovid-19. 

Ouministeli welongo owa shivifa kutya elongo loshipala noshipala otali ka tameka moiluku, she likolelela paendodo.

The Covid-19 pandemic, which has posed a profound challenge for the delivery of elections in many countries this year, has led to questions over Namibia’s readiness to safely and securely hold its regional council and local authority polls in November this year. 

WALVIS BAY – A young woman from the Topnaar community finds herself in a precarious predicament after she was served with a notice to vacate a rental property that belongs to the Walvis Bay municipality and which has been occupied by her family since 1986.