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The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the performance of the lower courts, which record a finalisation rate of 44% last year, way below the annual target.

As the nation continues to express dismay, as many do not agree with the government’s announcement on the liquidation of Air Namibia, stakeholders in the tourism and hospitality industry feel such a move will adversely affect the lucrative sector, which is one of the biggest contributors to the country’s GDP.

OSHAKATI - The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform is expected to spend about N$97 million to roll out the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccination to mitigate the further spread of the virus in the Northern Communal Areas (NCAs).

The Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Friday has denied an application by the defence team of parents who are accused of assaulting their nine-year-old daughter to death last year to have their case provisionally withdrawn, pending the finalisation of police investigations.

WALVIS BAY - About 30 employees of Swakopmund-based Namibia Fish Consumption Promotion Trust (NFCPT) have downed tools after their representative union, the Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) and their employer reached a deadlock in terms of the 2021/2022 salary negotiations.

The largest trade union in the country, the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW), is organising a demonstration this week in a bid to reverse the closing down of Air Namibia and to call for the resignation of public enterprises minister Leon Jooste. 

Voters in the southern part of the country will return to the polls next week Friday for a rerun, ordered by the country’s electoral court, which annulled last year’s local authority elections in Stampriet, Aroab, Koës, and the Mariental Rural constituency results due to irregularities.

KATIMA MULILO - Owning or starting a business from scratch is not an easy journey for many, as much as others thrive in the industry, some are not as lucky and require assistance. 

RUNDU – The police in Kavango West have arrested four Namibian male for violating the curfew under the current Covid-19 regulations and for transporting timber planks illegally at Naingopo village, some 30km south of Ncaute police station.

WALVIS BAY – A young woman at the harbour town of Walvis Bay was discovered dead on Wednesday morning in Tutaleni by her family after she allegedly tried to illegally terminate her pregnancy.