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Kahimbi Desire Masule is a 34-year-old ambitious woman who grew up with her grandmother in the Sikanjabuka village located in the eastern part of Zambezi region.

Local-based internet service provider Paratus is the landing party for the subsea cable, Equiano, in Namibia – and in this regard, the company welcomes private licensed operator and new Namibian market entrant Demshi Investment Holdings as a significant capacity investor. 

With Nigeria’s former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala being confirmed as the new director general of the World Trade Organisation, Namibia has implored the global trade body to look into specific trade issues affecting the continent.

KATIMA MULILO - The Zambezi governor Lawrence Sampofu has called on newly elected regional and local authority councillors in the region to work hard and deliver on the promises they made to the electorate.

A Windhoek resident arrested for allegedly hitting a 21-year-old man with a brick in Okahandja Park last Thursday was denied bail earlier this week.

A group of Rössing mine workers held a peaceful demonstration outside the labour commissioner’s office in Swakopmund on Monday where an arbitration hearing of their former colleagues who were sacked in September last year took place on the same day. 

Namibia preferred candidate for the director general post of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has prevailed to take charge of the Switzerland-based institution.

Disgruntled workers at the country’s national public broadcaster, NBC, have written an open letter to the government urging the leadership to help save the corporation from alleged maladministration, nepotism and corruption.

Puma Energy Namibia and the Namibia Bus and Taxi Association are embroiled in a fight over a piece of land on which both parties have been operating for years.

ONGWEDIVA – A 23-year-old man was allegedly stabbed and hacked to death with a panga by a couple at Oshuunga village in Oshana region on Tuesday evening.