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SWAKOPMUND - Senior legal officials from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are currently discussing the implementation of legal instruments that are part of the protocols on Extradition and on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters.

ONDANGWA - The Ondangwa Town Council has proposed to rezone the Omashaka informal settlement to enable it to segregate residential erven from business plots.

WINDHOEK - The police have finalised their investigations into the case of a 21-year-old woman who is accused of killing her pensioner boyfriend in February. 

WINDHOEK - The failure of two disgruntled members of Swapo to join other interested parties when they decided to approach the Windhoek High Court to stop the extra-ordinary Congress of Swapo slated for this weekend backfired when High Court Judge Thomas Masuku upheld an objection by the party and its secretary general Sophia Shaningwa about the non-joinder.

WINDHOEK - The Outapi Town Council has endorsed Immanuel Shikongo, who is the regional secretary of Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) in the Omusati Region, as the chairperson of the management committee of the local authority.

WINDHOEK – News has emerged from New York that Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov has teamed up with an international accommodation chain to bring the first Habitas hotel in Africa to Namibia. 

SWAKOPMUND - Rio Tinto’s decision to sell its stake in Rössing to China National Uranium Corporation (CNUC) mitigates further job losses in the mining sector as the strategic mine was set to cease operations within the next seven years.   

WINDHOEK - Aminuis Constituency Councillor Peter Kazongominja feels that had the long-overdue proposed Constituency Development Fund Bill, which was tabled in the National Council in 2015, been passed, the region could have had funds to contain the worsening and persistent famine in his drought-stricken area. With the prolonged drought in Aminuis Constituency in Omaheke Region, more than 300 livestock have died as farmers watch their animals helplessly succumb to famine.

SWAKOPMUND - A skewed and inequitable salary structure and the unwillingness of the Swakopmund municipality and council to address the matter has resulted in a peaceful protest during lunch time yesterday in Swakopmund.

WINDHOEK - Couples wedded outside the police zone (north of the redline) will be given an opportunity in the new marriage law to change their marriage status on whether they will be married out or in community of property.