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Entrepreneurship among the youth is one of the fast-growing sectors and a possible solution to the high unemployment rate and severe poverty in the country. 

A man serving a prison sentence of 40 years for murder is suing the safety and security ministry for N$1.8 million for assault and sexual assault.

The government has committed at least N$8.31 billion over the next seven years towards the water sector programme. 

A very relieved Gustav Pienaar punched his fists into the air after Windhoek High Court Judge Christie Liebenberg on Friday acquitted him on charges of murder and assault by threat and defeating or attempting to defeat or obstruct the course of justice. 

A seven-year-old girl died last week in a car accident while travelling to Swakopmund from Windhoek. 

In the late deputy minister of higher education Veno Kauaria, President Hage Geingob said he has lost a sister, comrade and confidant.

The Gobabis municipality last week suspended three managers and two junior employees for alleged misconduct, bringing the total number of employees on suspension at the local authority to six. 

Years of drought have eroded the lives of thousands of subsistence farmers and recently, the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has forced hundreds of Angolans to leave their homes to search for food while those remaining barely get by, foraging for wild berries.

Stolen cables at pumps connecting a local water treatment plant have left thousands of residents in the Zambezi region without water. As a result, residents in the region have been flocking to the Zambezi River for water.

Health minister Dr Kalumbi Shangula has expressed concern over the mushrooming use of unauthorised and unreliable Covid-19 test kits in the country.