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Namibia is on standby to provide transhipment services to countries affected by the unfolding Suez canal cargo ship blockage crisis. 

Namibians from all occupations at the weekend bade farewell to veteran broadcaster and historian Alexander Jarimbovandu Kaputu who was laid to rest on Saturday near Ovitoto in the Otjozondjupa region. 

A strike appears imminent at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation after the labour commissioner last week issued a certificate of non-resolution to the ongoing dispute pitting a union representing NBC workers and the national broadcaster’s management. 

Communal land boards across the country are facing a challenge of many requests for land in their areas, with over 30 000 applications yet to be processed, land reform minister Calle Schlettwein has said. 

An Otjiwarongo-based police constable and a pastor of the Enlightened Christian Gathering Church were arrested on Friday in Omuthiya after they were found in possession of a rhino horn. 

The Namibia Press Agency (Nampa) has taken issue with a newspaper report, which insinuated the agency was a problematic public enterprise. 

The police in Oshikoto are hot on the trail of a butchery owner, who allegedly evaded arrest when he and four others were intercepted whilst transporting cattle carcass last week. 

A good deed by a Swakopmund pensioner has cost him his life when he was allegedly murdered by an unemployed man he was helping with accommodation by strangulation. 

The decision by Cabinet to set aside certain jobs within the public service and employ children of the liberation struggle without them going through the recruitment process as required by law has been declared unlawful by the High Court.

A woman was allegedly fatally shot in the head during a scuffle for a firearm with her boyfriend at Odimbwa village in the Etayi constituency of Omusati.