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The environment ministry has condemned the involvement of law enforcement officers in wildlife crimes.

Katima Mulilo Urban constituency councillor, John Mukaya, who died last month in a car accident in the Mpyu area along the Katima Mulilo-Ngoma road, was laid to rest at Silumbi village in the Zambezi region on Tuesday. 

Police chief Sebastian Ndeitunga said his office will write to his counterpart in Angola to ensure that the two police officers accused of shooting a Namibian learner last month are prosecuted in accordance with that country’s law. 

Ovaherero Paramount Chief Vekuii Rukoro has described as “disappointing and disheartening” the US Supreme Court’s decline to hear a petition to revive a lawsuit seeking damages from Germany for atrocities and property seizures committed by its colonial authorities against the Ovaherero and Nama between 1904-1908.

Senior political leaders from the ruling and opposition parties in the //Kharas and Hardap regions are at loggerheads over the mandate of recruiting a workforce for the ongoing construction and rehabilitation project on the Gibeon-Tses B1 tarred road.

Health minister Dr. Kalumbi Shangula has called for speedy burials as Covid-19 deaths near the 1 000 mark and surpasses the figures of the disease estimates projection model that indicated that Namibia would have recorded 834 deaths during 2020 and 2021.

A 41-year-old Zambian witchdoctor who has allegedly been conducting healing processes around the Zambezi region, was fined N$6 000 in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate’s Court on Monday. 

The Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) has decided to suspend all its face-to-face learning in an attempt to suppress the spread of Covid-19, and classes will be offered online until further notice.

A former Walvis Bay-based soldier has defied the odds by using his near-death experience to turn his life into a completely new direction… that of a flourishing businessman. 

The results for laboratory tests for semen obtained in the case of a medical intern at Katutura Intermediate Hospital, accused of raping an 18-year-old male patient, have come back negative.