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After a two-year hiatus, the GIPF has confirmed it will be back at the Ongwediva Annual Trade Fair from 26 August to 1 September 2022. 

Canadian oil and gas explorer ReconAfrica has received a three-year extension on its Environmental Clearance Certificate (ECC) from Namibia’s environmental commissioner in the environment ministry. The extended ECC is valid from 26 August 2022, until 26 August 2025, with the extension having been approved on 11 August 2022.

Farmers in the Karibib and Otjimbingwe areas are losing millions of dollars through stock theft and poaching by repeat offenders.

After 26 years in the police force, new Kavango West commander Commissioner Julia Iuze Sakuwa-Neo is determined to make a difference and change the narrative that the police are lazy, useless and corrupt.

The appointment of deputy inspector general Joseph Shikongo as the country’s new police chief has been largely lauded.

Learners from the San community at government’s Bravo resettlement project in the Kavango West region are in need of a hostel. 

Namibia will ask CITES to allow the sustainable hunting and trade of white rhino, saying the revenue derived from it would go directly back into conservation and anti-poaching programmes as well as equipment, law enforcement, education, community initiatives, infrastructure and habitat management.   

A northern police officer, who was dismissed from his job for an interview with a local media house, is unsure of his career with the Namibian police force.

The ruling Swapo party is the last political formation to lecture others about running local authorities as it failed at an industrial scale, for the better part of 32 years, Landless People’s Movement leader Bernadus Swartbooi has said.

TransNamib has opened a criminal case against workers for damaging company property at Walvis Bay.