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WINDHOEK – Women’s Action for Development has called on the private sector to invest in initiatives aimed at reducing gender-based violence and violence against children in the country. 

The Namibian police have released an artist’s rendition on the clothes that late Cheryl Avihe Ujaha, 9, was last seen wearing. Her dismembered remains were discovered in a riverbed in Katutura three days after she went missing from her home not far from Clemence Kapuuo Street on August 26.  

RUNDU - A man is recovering in the Rundu Intermediate Hospital from several stab wounds after surviving a knife attack which inflicted deep wounds on the right side of his chest, below the left armpit and on both hands. He was stabbed while he fought off a gang of knife-wielding thugs.

WINDHOEK - The ruling party Swapo is expected to amend its constitution at the 6th extraordinary congress scheduled for next month, party Secretary for Information and Mobilisation Hilma Nicanor revealed yesterday.

WINDHOEK - Charles Winston Manale, 35, yesterday afternoon pleaded guilty to 147 counts of fraud before Windhoek High Court Judge Dinnah Usiku at the Windhoek Correctional Facility High Court, but pleaded not guilty to a charge of money laundering.

WALVIS BAY - Some of the about 40 workers retrenched from the Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology (NIMT) and their union have vowed to challenge the retrenchments as well as seek intervention from the highest office in the country as it was not done in accordance with the Labour Act.

WINDHOEK – Chief administrator of the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) Freddy Mwiya yesterday rubbished a statement issued last week by the Namibia Hockey Union (NHU), in which the union cleared its allegedly racism-tainted coach Maryke Short of any wrongdoings.

WINDHOEK – Namibian international Hendrik “Ballack” Somaeb on Saturday made his debut for Serbian Super League club FK Zemun, which he recently joined after spending the better part of last year at Namibia Premiership coastal giants Blue Waters FC.

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