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WINDHOEK - The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Secretariat’s deputy executive secretary responsible for corporate affairs, Ambassador Joseph Andre Nourrice, was sworn in on Saturday.

KEETMANSHOOP – Seaflower general manager of operations Inocencio Verde says the challenges facing Namibia requires brilliant young minds to solve and it is up to young people to come up with pragmatic solutions to these problems.

Lüderitz - The Lüderitz Town Council has capacitated its long-serving employees, especially for those who have worked for many years in its employ and have the experience but they do not have academic qualifications.

Lüderitz - The Lüderitz Town Council and Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU) have negotiated and reached an agreement on workers’ benefits for the financial year 2018/2019.

RUNDU - The Namibian Police in Rundu were called to a gruesome crime scene at Gove village some 31 km east of Rundu along the Rundu-Divundu gravel road that runs parallel to the Kavango River where a man had just been killed with a sharp unidentified object in the early hours of Thursday.

RUNDU - Sikondo green scheme project assistant manager Maxwell Nghidinwa has revealed the fire that engulfed the green scheme project last week caused damage amounting to N$350,000 at the medium scale section (MSF) of the government farm.

WINDHOEK - Some of the journalists who received a SADC media award during the 38th SADC Summit said that there is need to improve access to information and gender equality within the SADC media industry.

RUNDU – Several police officers in Rundu, among them high-ranking officers, have been summoned to an internal inquiry that starts today over their alleged mishandling of a complainant prior to the case in which five family members were killed in cold blood by a relative, Jesaya Gabriel Chuhunda, 20, who is currently in police custody after the court had denied him bail.

WINDHOEK - Scenes of emotional outbursts – some supportive, but mostly incredulous – greeted the sentencing in the Windhoek High Court on Friday of the woman who killed her almost three-year-old daughter.

IMPALILA - Some operators of riverboats catering for upmarket, high-heeled tourists flocking to the breathtaking Impalila Island at the far eastern tip of Namibia stand accused of wantonly dumping human waste into the Chobe and Zambezi rivers, posing an environmental disaster to fauna and flora.