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The Swapo Party Women’s Council will embark on projects intended to sustain orphans and destitute people in regions and wants to involve other stakeholders to facilitate projects. 

The Adventist Development Relief Agency, an arm of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, donated food hampers to 110 households on Friday, particularly stateless Angolans from Katima Mulilo’s locations.

Smuggling of fuel from Angola into Namibia has taken a nasty turn, as Namibian police officers and drivers commuting to fuel up their vehicles inside Angola have allegedly become victims of attacks by Angolan fuel smugglers, who are irked by the Namibian government’s decision to tighten control over the illegal trade.

The office of the Auditor General, tasked to evaluate infrastructure maintenance at government schools, found public schools countrywide to be in a perilous state.

The embattled National Fishing Corporation of Namibia is probing a possible scam in which N$8 million was paid to people, whose names were allegedly illegally added to that of former Seaflower Pelagic Processing’s relief grant recipients.

A sprawling cattle farm in the Kavango West region, under the care of the Namibia Industrial Development Agency, has been abandoned with livestock roaming around unattended while infrastructure has deteriorated.

A workshop at the Windhoek Correctional Facility was gutted by fire on Monday, destroying machines and finished materials. 

The Supreme Court ruled the Herero Royal Red Flag Association has a legal claim to a city plot of which the rival faction wants ownership. 

A failure to adequately pay his legal team caused a Windhoek resident, who is accused of raping his biological daughter several times and forcing her to abort the foetus, to lose his legal aid lawyer and an advocate he instructed to defend him during the last stretch of his trial.

Incumbent Swapo regional coordinator in Omaheke Ruth Kaukuata-Mbura and the region’s information and mobilisation officer Ebben Handura, are the only two candidates to contest the party’s top post, New Era has learned.