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RUNDU - The escape yesterday of  two trial-awaiting inmates at the Rundu Police station in Kavango East has put a spotlight on police possibly ‘sleeping on duty’ as it came barely days after four inmates escaped at Omega.

WINDHOEK- With the devastating impacts of climate change evident, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved approximately N$124.6 million (US$ 8.9 million) grant for the implementation of a climate change adaptation project in Namibia.

WINDHOEK - In a detailed affidavit, Ian McLaren, one of the liquidators of the defunct SME Bank describes how an investigation unearthed the modus operandi used by the crippled bank’s senior Zimbabwean employees and directors to fleece the bank of hundreds of millions of dollars.

WINDHOEK - Roads Authority (RA), says 37 kilometres of the Windhoek - Okahandja dual carriageway will be completed by September this year and the remaining 21 kilometres stretching towards Okahandja to be completed by 2022. 

WINDHOEK- Disgruntled foreign-trained medical and dental graduates who sat for a pre-internship exam and failed would not have met the minimum requirements to enter the country’s higher education institutions.

SWAKOPMUND - The Swakopmund Municipality has availed land for the planned construction of 1590 social and debt-financed houses at the coastal town, to ease the housing shortage at the town. 

KEETMANSHOOP - //Kharas regional governor Lucia Basson says she has no iota of doubt in her mind about the region’s support for the ruling party Swapo ahead of this year’s national elections. 

OMATJETE- The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative Izumi Morota-Alakija has commended Namibia for having shown its commitment to protecting wildlife, especially given the country’s extraordinary diversity of species and high level of endemism. 

WINDHOEK - New Era Publication Corporation [NEPC], the publisher of New Era and Kundana newspapers, has teamed up with RedForce Debt Management for the latter to help collect monies owned to the newspaper group.

KATIMA MULILO - Some communal farmers in eastern Zambezi, in the Kabbe South Constituency have had a good harvest, despite the prevailing drought.