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Cuba’s cash-strapped government announced on Monday that fuel prices will soar up by more than 500% beginning 1 February, part of a series of economic measures aimed at reducing the deficit.

Insufficient rainfall during the 2022-2023 cropping season is primarily to blame for the decline in local crop production in the third quarter of 2023 - both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter.

With less than 11 months to go before Namibia heads to the polls, youth leaders from various political parties have vowed to go on a serious civic and voter education drive to address voter apathy. 

The residents of Sky Phase 3 location in Ongwediva late last year witnessed the inauguration of an electrical reticulation project to the value of N$4.1 million.

An elderly Italian couple was attacked and robbed by unknown criminals along Libertina Amadhila Street in Swakopmund on Monday evening. 

Two Zambian truck drivers accused of assaulting a transgender man in Walvis Bay last week after heavy drinking and socialising, are to remain behind bars. 

The State has referred the case against NEFF Commissar of Economic Development Michael Amushelelo for contravening a court order that instructed him to stay 400 metres from Rani Group shops across the country back to the police for further investigations. 

The Ministry of Environment and Tourism has conducted human-wildlife conflict management training in over 40 conservancies since September 2023, aimed at equipping the communities with skills to handle claims and resolve human- wildlife conflict according to national policy.

The Namibian Police Force’s Inspector General, Lieutenant-General Joseph Shikongo, has urged police officers not to disregard society during their tenure in the police system.

The Namibian Police have reported three cases of murder committed over the weekend.