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WINDHOEK - The Directorate of Namibia Library and Archives Service in the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, targets for all public libraries to have access to computers and internet by the year 2022. 

WINDHOEK – Speaker of the National Assembly Professor Peter Katjavivi has launched the institution’s first strategic plan aimed at, among others, strengthening the institutional capacity in order to effectively achieve its constitutional mandate.

WINDHOEK - An entity under the National Youth Service (NYS), christened Youth Security Service PTY, has been unable to pay its more than 300 security guards due to millions of dollars allegedly owed to it by the Ministry of Sport, Youth and National Service. 

WINDHOEK- A Namibian police force officer accused of shooting two people and killing one with a stray bullet in Okahandja Park informal settlement last week was denied bail during his first court appearance.

KALKFELD - The Otjozondjupa Region has recorded 616 tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2017, of which 46 were at drug resistant level.

OSHAKATI – Two suspects implicated in a human trafficking case made a brief appearance in the Oshakati Magistrate’s Court, each on a charge of trafficking in person, kidnapping and two counts of rape.

KALKFELD - Governor of Otjozondjupa Region Otto Iipinge has expressed disappointment that some youths have received material support from government but have underutilised such assistance.

WINDHOEK – Popular Democratic Party (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani has questioned the resettling of high profile government officials such as ministers and permanent secretaries, whom he said are well paid to afford land.

WINDHOEK - The two Angolan men that admitted they committed fraud and offences under the Anti-Corruption Act in a scam involving N$210.6 million and 15 suspects were sentenced to fines, suspended jail terms and direct jail terms on Friday by Acting High Court Judge Boas Usiku.

WINDHOEK - The Ministry of Environment and Tourism disclosed in an exclusive interview with New Era on Thursday that the current size of Namibia’s ivory stockpile is 69 391.71kg (69.4 tonnes) valued at N$125.48 million.