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The Namibia Forensic Science Institute needs at least N$36 million per year to clear a backlog of 4 300 DNA samples.

Following public outcry because of the rampant sand mining, which leads to land degradation that poses a threat to humans and animals, the environment ministry is reviewing the law to tighten all loopholes.

Fisheries minister Derek Klazen says he will not be pressured into making hasty decisions without doing proper research regarding trawling within the restricted zone of the country’s fishing grounds.

The Omuthiya Town Council is taking a gamble as it forges ahead with the recruitment of a chief executive officer, despite former incumbent Samuel Mbango having appealed the Labour Commissioner’s ruling in the High Court.

The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) has come out guns blazing over the alleged illegal election of the management committee chairperson of the Otjiwarongo Municipality, whom the party claims ascended to power without a second nomination.

“The recent derailment of the motion on the genocide by the Swapo party government, from reparations and restorative justice to bilateral projects, support as a gesture of Germans’

To remedy the overcrowding situation at the popular overcrowded Ndama Combined school in Rundu, the ministry of education has almost completed the construction of a fully-fledged primary school at the informal settlement.

The late withdrawal of Olympic sprint double champion Elaine Thompson-Herah might have stolen a bit of spark away from today’s Brussels Diamond League meeting, but Namibia’s sprint aces Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi are determined to inject some oomph into the revered event.

Disappointment, pity, simply unfortunate and regretful are some of the words Paralympics coach Michael Hamukwaya could find to describe the disqualification of sprinter Ananias Shikongo and his guide Even Tjiviju during yesterday’s men’s T11 100m final at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics.

Brave Warriors’ enterprising winger Deon Hotto believes the experience and maturity of the current crop of players in the senior national team will be enough to carry them through when they confront the Red Devils of Congo-Brazzaville today at the Orlando Stadium in South Africa.