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Rape convict and northern businessman Sindano Hango has approached the Oshakati High Court to appeal his sentence of 15 years' imprisonment. 

The family of 11-day-old baby girl Eleanor Gwenyth Griffiths, who died in the intensive care unit of the Windhoek Central Hospital, is accusing the medical staff of negligence. 

President Hage Geingob has conferred the honour of a state funeral on the late former minister and Swapo stalwart Immanuel Ngatjizeko who passed on 5 March 2022 due to ill health.

The education director in Oshana region, Hileni Amukana, has encouraged stakeholders in education to be actively involved in their children’s schoolwork in order to keep improving results in the region.

A 53-year-old man convicted of 32 rape counts involving 10 minor boys, was sentenced to an effective 68 years imprisonment by acting Windhoek High Court Judge Alfred Siboleka yesterday. 

President Hage Geingob has implored Namibian men to stop abusing women and girls.

Justice minister Yvonne Dausab says the nation is at a point of desperation as it tries to find ways to respond to the carnage of sexual violence. 

The High Court yesterday dismissed a contempt of court application by the office of the ombudsman against the gender equality ministry’s failure to provide a detailed action plan to establish child-friendly jails as ordered by the court. 

Gender equality minister Doreen Sioka has expressed sadness at the deaths of two children because of malnutrition in Gobabis recently, and condemned those who abuse government-sponsored social grants. 

The National Unity Democratic Organisation has thrown its weight behind government’s green hydrogen project and called for its fast implementation, believing it would help turn around the domestic economy.