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African ambassadors accredited to Namibia this week donated N$146 000 towards community projects in Tsumkwe. 

Employees at the government’s Sikondo irrigation project on Saturday battled a mysterious fire that caused substantial damage to the facility. The damage is estimated at about N$600 000. 

Residents of Dordabis have asked that a garbage dumpsite, located in the middle of the settlement, be moved because it is hazardous to their health.

Namibia’s policy of ‘being friends to all and enemy of none’ does exist, and does not create a moral and political dilemma in the execution of the country’s international relations policy, international relations executive director Penda Naanda has said.

A 19-year-old grade 10 learner, who is accused of raping a 67-year-old woman, was denied bail in the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

A 23-year-old Outjo resident, accused of killing his 19-year-old girlfriend in a fit of jealousy, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder this week before Windhoek High Court Judge Naomi Shivute.

Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called upon the San community in Tsumkwe to reject the marginalised tag.

The State’s notion of a strong prima facie case alone is not sufficient to deny the release of Swapo Party Youth League leader Sylas Mungoba from police custody. 

The widow of Walvis Bay businessman, Hans-Jorg Möller, who was killed during a daring robbery when he came to the defence of his wife and children during the early morning hours of 17 June 2016, narrated her ordeal in the Windhoek High Court yesterday.

The number of cases of the health workers from the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital, who were robbed of their full salaries at the end of July, has increased from 13 to 19.