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Namibia considers its oil and natural gas resources to be crucial to its socio-economic development.

Delayed health-seeking behaviour by some expectant mothers, who present themselves late at health facilities and delay in attending antenatal care are some of the reasons for the rising number of premature births in Namibia.

We thank you in anticipation of the publication of this letter in your esteemed newspaper. 

The contents inherent in this brief article are to be viewed as my personal observations. I do not want to claim expertise as to what is happening within the inner Swapo Party circle.

The Namibia Students Financial Assistance Fund acting CEO, Kennedy Kandume, said the institution has prioritised the payment of non-tuition fees. 

The Oshakati High Court has ruled as inadmissible the murder confession made by a man on trial for raping, killing and dumping his girlfriend’s body in a trench alongside the Divundu Correctional Facility.

One of the two men tried for gang-raping a woman in Swakopmund says the court convicted him without a testimony of an eye-witness.

A programme by the German Agency for International Cooperation, Farmers Business School, recently awarded certificates to about 80 communal farmers in the Rundjara village in the Masharere Constituency of the Kavango East region. 

Swapo parliamentarian Natangwe Ithete has called for speedy implementation of special economic zones.

The CEO of Oniipa Town Council, Junias Jakob, has refused to budge despite being suspended by council late Tuesday afternoon, arguing that the meeting at which he was relieved of duties was illegal and unprocedural.