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The first European Union (EU)-Namibia Business Forum is expected to kick off in Brussels next week on 24 and 25 October.

An adage in my language says, ‘A chicken passes through a narrow opening and leaves behind its feather – a person dies and leaves behind his name’.

Oukwambi Traditional Authority chief Ndilimani Iipumbu has appealed to the government to construct more boreholes, due to the scarcity of water in the northern regions. 

The power of national symbols lies in their ability to bring a nation together, transcending their differences and uniting them under a common purpose, the minister of Information and Communication Technology has said. 

Two employees of Dundee Precious Metal at Tsumeb in the Oshikoto Region on Monday appeared in the town’s magistrate’s court after they allegedly stole items worth N.dollars 110 000 from their employer.

The Outapi Magistrate’s Court has withdrawn a case of a male teacher, who was arrested for allegedly threatening to kill his female school principal.

A resident of Oshikuyu village in the Outapi district was sentenced to an effective 30-years-imprisonment by Judge Herman January in the Oshakati High Court on Friday.

The Zambezi Regional Council will convene an urgent special meeting on Wednesday to tackle the recent arrest of six senior officials.

Although the mushrooming of illegal shacks remains one of the biggest obstacles at Otjinene, the town’s village council said it will address the issue in an
orderly and systematic way to avoid unnecessary public chaos. 

Speaker of the National Assembly Peter Katjavivi has described the late revered statesman and former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari as an international civil servant who played a pivotal role in Namibia’s struggle for independence.