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After years of delay, the Rundu abattoir construction and set up now stands at 98% completion. The long-awaited facility will serve as a market for cattle and goat farmers in the two Kavango regions.

The formal bail application hearing of rape accused Dennis Noa was postponed yesterday by the Katutura Magistrate’s Court.

The Namibian Correctional Service (NCS) says there is no overcrowding or need for decongestion of offenders due to Covid-19 in the country’s 14 correctional facilities.

In the face of deadlier and more contagious Covid-19 variants, southern African health ministers have requested the World Health Organisation (WHO) to help member states track and tackle new variants.

Former suspended chief regional officer (CRO) of Kunene, George Kamseb, was this month reappointed as the new CRO for the next two years.

The number of Angolan refugees camping at Etunda in the Omusati region has dwindled in recent days after they heard of talks to relocate them to safer ground. The migrants have moved to other parts of the region in search of jobs to harvest and thresh mahangu.

A worsening drought is continuing to ravage many parts of the Dâures constituency in the Erongo region. Due to a lack of rainfall in the affected areas, crops have dried up while serious losses of livestock have been experienced by distressed farmers. 

On the morning of 25 May this year, a grassfire call out rang through Windhoek’s fire brigade headquarters. That call was quickly followed by a backup grassfire call to Brakwater, north of Windhoek. Expecting a run of the mill veld fire, the first responders were instead greeted by an Armageddon-like inferno. 

An employee of the Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP) who allegedly falsely pretended that Covid samples were genuinely tested and resulted in negative outcomes, thereby pocketing N$54 230, made a first appearance before Windhoek magistrate Linus Samunzala yesterday.

The signing and implementation of the N$18 billion genocide deal reached by the Namibian and German governments will lead to civil strife, if not new genocidal war, former Cabinet minister Kazenambo Kazenambo has warned.