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WINDHOEK – Employees at Al Dahra, a grape and date agricultural company in southern Namibia, say they live in deplorable conditions and receive low wages.

WINDHOEK - Secretary of the Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) Ephraim Nekongo has requested government to reduce the number of nursing intakes at tertiary institutions because many of them end up being unemployed after they have graduated.

WINDHOEK - Outjo mayor Samuel !Oe-Amseb is troubled by free roaming animals at the town and that some residents have put up kraals in residential areas.

WINDHOEK - Erastus Ashipala, socially known as Von Asha, has made a name for himself and is currently taking the portrait sketching world by storm.

WINDHOEK - The Deputy Minister of Health and Social Services, Juliet Kavetuna has urged the health staff and all the other role players in health care provision and services in Namibia, to strengthen the general coordination to avoid duplications and wastage of resources that are diminishing day by day.

OMUTHIYA - The Director of Education, Arts and Culture for Oshikoto Region, Lameck Kafidi who will be retiring next month bade farewell to the educational fraternity on Friday as he handed down awards of excellence to hundreds of learners and teachers.

WINDHOEK - Stealing to support an expensive lifestyle including private schools and expensive weddings plus various failed business ventures landed a former assistant accountant in jail for eight years after Windhoek High Court Judge Kobus Miller convicted her of 34 counts of fraud and one count of money laundering on her own admission.

RUNDU - The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry has confirmed there is an outbreak of fall armyworms in the Zambezi Region after it was reported on February 14 to have attacked crops in various areas – and considering the poor rain prospects this will affect the harvest immensely. According to the ministry the outbreak poses a significant threat to smallholder farmers, mainly maize farmers. and has become a threat to food security. 

WINDHOEK - Ghanaian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Charles Owiredu has encouraged Namibia to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).

WINDHOEK - Democratic Republic of Congo’s new president, Felix Tshisekedi, is expected to arrive in Windhoek today on a working visit, the Namibian presidency announced late yesterday.