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The Namibia-Angola Joint Commission of Cooperation this week reviewed some bilateral agreements between the two neighbouring nations.

A 28-year-old man burnt beyond recognition when a vehicle he was driving collided with another vehicle on the Katima Mulilo-Ngoma road on Sunday.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is committed to supporting the Namibian government in future interventions in the water sector, the bank’s representative Herbert Chinokoro said.

The secretary general of the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo), Joseph Kauandenge, has called on non-Nudo members to refrain from interfering in the party’s internal affairs.

Located about 110km in the most western part of the Omusati region is a small Otjekua village community, where water shortage has been an everyday challenge, with the nearest borehole being some 5km away.

Windhoek High Court judge Christi Liebenberg yesterday slammed the lawyer of one of the two American citizens accused of the assassin-like murder of Namibian André Heckmair in Windhoek on 7 January 2011 for his conduct.

Urban and Rural Development Minister Erastus Uutoni said he will bring the Rent Control Bill to Parliament once the draft bill has gone through the relevant structures and scrutiny.

Two more suspects have been added to the fraud case involving more than N$4 million that disappeared at Zambezi Regional Council. 

The Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform has warned members of the public to stop grabbing resettlement farms in the Oshikoto region.

Visually impaired learners at the Gabriel Taapopi Senior Secondary School in Ongwediva are now without school materials after an office block that housed their education supplies caught fire in a suspected arson incident on Sunday.