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Namibia and Zambia agreed to revisit their diplomatic ties in various sectors of the economy.

The trial-within-a-trial of the two American nationals accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in January 2011, was put on hold last week as the State’s last witness was unable to testify. 

Residents of Ekunde Extension 5 on the outskirts of Okahandja have expressed unhappiness with the local authority over the lack of municipal services they have been promised for years.

A medical student, who was convicted for forging Covid-19 test results last year, scored a partial victory in the High Court yesterday.

The plight of pensioners, who are abused by either family members or vendors, was taken up by a National Unity Democratic Organisation president Utjiua Muinjangue in the National Assembly last week.

A 42-year-old man accused of murdering his girlfriend and dumping her dead body at the victim’s parental home in Outjo last weekend, was yesterday denied bail. 

Northern traditional authorities have released new fines for subjects who transgress, with only few changes, while some are completely unchanged.

Employees at the Malaysian-owned Limkokwing University of Creative Technology have accused administrators at the university of corruption and discrimination, putting the blame squarely at the doors of its foreign administrators.

A State witness, who worked at the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology in Arandis, testified yesterday that accused Ernst Lichtenstrasser told then executive director Eckhardt Mueller to “sleep with one eye open”.

The mother of a 19-year-old girl, who was arrested on Sunday in the Omusati region for allegedly assaulting her 70-year-old grandmother, has apportioned blame to her husband for recording a video instead of stopping his daughter from attacking the elderly woman.