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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), in collaboration with the Namibian government and under the leadership of the Ministry of Higher Education, Technology and Innovation, is scheduled to host the UNESCO-Southern Africa sub-regional forum on artificial intelligence. 

In efforts to promote information-sharing between all key players in the housing industry, a construction and property exhibition has been organised to take place in Windhoek from 27 to 29 October 2022.

The Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board (NIPDB) has finalised the deployment of five Investment and Export Promotion attachés (IEPA) to strategically-selected markets. 

A man serving 14 years imprisonment for sexually violating a six-year-old minor girl is fighting to remain accommodated in a single cell while serving his sentence as he fears for his life.

A 33-year-old man lost his life after he fatally fell from a donkey he was riding on Tuesday at 11h00 in Sikarosompo village in the Kavango West.

The Kunene region is still caught in the grips of a terrible drought, with five out of seven constituencies experiencing a severe dry period that has lasted for at least seven years with no apparent end in sight. 

Newly-elected Swapo coordinator for Otjozondjupa Imms Namaseb has vowed all local and regional councillors and party office-bearers will soon be held accountable to a set of standards as they are expected to sign performance agreements during his five-year reign.

The trial of siblings Azaan Madisia and Junior Mulundu, who are accused of murdering the young Shannon Wasserfall, is set to start in February next year.

As Namibians prepare to join fellow compatriots in Mariental, Hardap region to commemorate Heroes’ Day, New Era engaged some of the region’s inhabitants who shared the day’s importance in Namibia’s struggle for freedom.