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Covid-19 and the measures to curb its spread have impacted the operations of the Ministry of Mines and Energy. 

A 33-year-old unemployed woman from Onanyege village in the Omuthiya constituency is finding the going tough as she is raising her 12-year-old disabled daughter, who is in need of a wheelchair. 

Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani has called on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and international relations minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to intervene in Eswatini.

The Tsumeb municipality has endorsed the suspension of its acting CEO Karolina Damases following recommendations from the urban and rural development ministry, which conducted an investigation into the operations of the local authority. 

The discovery of a strange trench in the Mukwe constituency, where several people have gone missing and the lifeless body of a student was discovered floating in the river after he disappeared several days earlier, has caused a stir. 

The marginalised communities from the Ruacana and Otamanzi constituencies in the Omusati region have shown up in big numbers to receive their Covid-19 vaccine doses, councillors informed New Era last week.

The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated families across Namibia, left a number of children orphaned or without one parent, and the founder of 'Candid Talks with Operi' thus donated items to five orphaned babies at the Windhoek Central Hospital recently.

Information minister Peya Mushelenga has expressed dismay by the high number of people moving out of and into the Khomas region, saying it defeats the purpose of the movement restrictions between all regions across the country, enforced to curb the further spread of Covid-19. 

Two Windhoek-based lawyers managed to secure bail for their clients – two NDF members – accused of stealing at least two AK47 assault rifles, a pistol and ammunition from the Namibian Defence Force.

The meteorological service said Namibians should take the necessary precautions to shield against very cold conditions expected to hit them during the course of this week.