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OMUTHIYA - The recently completed 2.4-kilometre water pipeline has brought joy and relief to the drought-stricken community of Omadhiya in Oniipa Constituency, as the Rural and Water Supply Directorate opened the taps on Tuesday.

ONGWEDIVA - The Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture will not divulge its findings on the probe by the education directorate on an intimacy between a principal and a learner.

SWAKOPMUND - Meat and meat products worth around N$500 000 were reduced to ashes yesterday just before lunchtime when a refrigerated truck broke out in flames  about 30 kilometres on the way to Swakopmund.

RUNDU - John Thighuru, who is the chairperson of the Kavango East Regional council and Regional Councillor for Mukwe Constituency that borders Botswana on the south, has revealed the fence between Namibia and Botswana has been laying damaged for some time with no effort to replace it. Mukwe Constituency is in Kavango East Region

WALVIS BAY - Elgin Brown and Hamer Namibia (EBH) will pay out N$873 284 referred to as scrap money to about 350 employees apart from those in management positions.  

OMUTHIYA – Pained by the fate of learners at Iipindi Secondary School who for years have lived in squalid shacks that they rent in Oshikoto, the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) has embarked on a mission to construct a school hostel for the affected learners.

ONGWEDIVA - A 29-year-old woman survived a panga attack that left her with deep cuts on her head and arms at the hands of her 40-year-old ex-boyfriend on Tuesday.

WINDHOEK - A female congregant at a local church was admitted at a psychiatric unit yesterday, following reports she abused her nine-year-old daughter purportedly because the child is apparently ‘possessed by demons’ and the woman has also been making death threats towards her daughter.

WINDHOEK - The ruling party Swapo has joined hands to support the Bolivian Republic of Venezuela against the illegitimate economic sanctions imposed on Venezuela by the United States of America.

WINDHOEK - Namibia together with other African nations across the region have opened a new chapter in their military cooperation with India, a step stretching the long-standing close relationship between the Asian giant and the African continent.