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WINDHOEK – Chinese Ambassador to Namibia Zhang Yiming warned African ‘friends’ to watch their relations with the USA, a trade adversary he branded ‘greedy, spoilt and untrustworthy’ at a heated press conference yesterday.

WINDHOEK – The Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation will commence a project of profiling all 31 Namibian diplomatic missions in New Era newspaper, Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah confirmed yesterday.

WINDHOEK - Under siege Windhoek City Police Chief yesterday withdrew the court case he lodged against the City of Windhoek and its Chief Executive Officer.

WINDHOEK – Rally for Democracy and Progress’s (RDP’s) Walter Ndakondja, who contested for the position of party secretary general at the elective convention held recently in Windhoek, has described the conference as a “sham”. 

RUNDU – Rundu deputy mayor Toini Hausiku has relinquished her mayoral position to take up the last idle position in the management committee ahead of the June 7 deadline that government set.

RUNDU - Agribusdev Managing Director Petrus Uugwanga says the agency is struggling to pay its employees at various green scheme projects due to lack of funds at the state-owned entity.

WINDHOEK - A shortfall of N$87,3 million is anticipated in monthly payments of liberation struggle veterans’ allowance due to a huge number of former fighters retiring from active service.

KEETMANSHOOP - Political and traditional leaders from the Nama community have slammed the fact that their vernacular language is not offered on a high level in Namibian schools.

WINDHOEK - Livestock worth N$3.5 million have been stolen between April 2018 and March 2019 on farms and villages in the Omaheke Region, Omaheke Regional Governor Festus Ueitele has revealed.

RUNDU - The Director of Health in Kavango East and Kavango West Timeya Ngwira has condemned the practice of traditional circumcision reported to be high in the two regions.