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WINDHOEK – With the end of drought relief food distribution last year, it is now survival of the fittest for people in the Kunene Region. They depend on livestock and crops for survival, but the persisting drought spell of the last three years killed their livestock and there was no maize or mahangu harvest. 

WINDHOEK – The Windhoek Regional Court has held over the warrant of arrest for the woman who stands accused of strangling her one-month-old baby to death.

WINDHOEK – A four-year-old boy survived what his mother described as an attempted kidnap of her son at a shop in Dorado Park after a man allegedly tried to walk away with the boy on Thursday last week.

WINDHOEK - The Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) in Khomas Region has called for the establishment of neighbourhood watch bodies in all ten districts in the region.

ONGWEDIVA – While the general secretary of the Namibian Workers Union (NAPWU) Peter Nevonga was rallying behind a national strike to demand better salaries for employees of the water utility NamWater, his own employees at Super Foods, a grocery shop at Ondangwa, were in their third consecutive month without salaries.

WINDHOEK – “Do not despise where you are now or where you have been, it is all part of the process,” is a notable quote from the book titled ‘The Process’ by young author Sesilia Nekwaya.

WINDHOEK - The father of slain nine-year-old girl Cheryl Ujaha whose dismembered and boiled body was discovered in Katutura last week is confident the suspect(s) will be caught and brought to justice.

WINDHOEK - The Namibian Correctional Service (NSC) signed eight Memorandums of Understanding with non-governmental organisations, who will help with reintegration programmes for offenders released on special conditions.
Correctional Service Commissioner-General Raphael Hamunyela said they have a strategy of promoting  multi-focused rehabilitation services in order to attain the security sector’s desired outcome under NDP5, that states by the year 2022 Namibia must be safe, secure, peaceful and upholding the rule of law.

OMUTHIYA - Over 150 exhibitors are expected to showcase their products at this year’s annual Omuthiya Youth Fair slated for later this month, recording a triple increase from the less than 50 who participated last year. 

WINDHOEK – Namibia Institute of Pathology (NIP) CEO Augustinus Katiti, who got his marching orders on Friday, said he was surprised by the decision to fire him while a disciplinary process against him was still ongoing.