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The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund is in court fighting to have a former employee return more than N$500 000 he allegedly transferred to a student. 

Regional councils have been told to exhaust their budgets and not return any funds to Treasury while rural communities are languishing in poverty. 

The fraud and corruption trial of former CEO of the Road Contractors Company Kelly Nghixulifwa and two of his business friends, Anna Ndoroma and Hafeni Nginamwaami, resumed with evidence from several key witnesses.

The Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court showed mercy to a 21-year-old man, convicted of raping a minor in 2017, when it sentenced him to serve three years imprisonment. 

The Omaheke malnutrition technical committee last week reported a significant drop in the number of malnutrition admission cases and deaths. In the first quarter of 2022, the region reported 86 cases admitted at the state hospital and 17 deaths. 

A 17-year-old boy is expected to appear in court this week after he was arrested for allegedly raping a 56-year-old woman at Iikekele village on Friday evening. 

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention as well as the Mastercard Foundation started an in-country implementation of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative in Namibia to accelerate vaccination against Covid-19. 

Constituency councillors in the Khomas region are concerned about waste piling up in informal settlements, saying they are likely to cause Hepatitis E to flare up again if the City of Windhoek does not collect and offload the rubbish at the dumpsite soon.

Namibia’s sprint sensation Christine Mboma on Saturday night said sheer bravery, her love for the country and a need to reassess her recovery at an international event were among the driving forces that propelled her to scoop a bronze medal in the women’s 200m final. 

Trinidad and Tobago athlete Jereem Richards on Saturday ran an astounding time of 19.80 seconds to break a 28-year-old Commonwealth Games 200m men’s record that was set by Namibia’s sprint legend Frank Fredericks in 1994.