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A 27-year-old man died in a fire that also burned down 30 reed homes at the Aussenkehr farm in the ||Kharas region yesterday.

Chief pharmacist in the Oshana region Justus Ekandjo has encouraged patients to finish prescribed antibiotics to prevent antibiotic resistance, which has become a global health challenge.

The Ministry of Finance and Public Enterprises intends to implement what it calls a new game plan, aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), with a particular focus on boards’ performance.

An outbreak of chicken pox at one of the units housing trial awaiting inmates at the Windhoek Correctional Facility, has resulted in the unit being quarantined.

President Hage Geingob has reiterated his government’s decision to not deploy troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as part of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) peacekeeping mission.

Tondoro constituency councillor and chairperson of the Kavango West regional council Joseph Sikongo said it is high time that the home affairs ministry stepped up its game on service delivery.

The move by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to finally hold public interviews for judges, albeit at its discretion, has been welcomed with open arms.

Government is being assertive in ensuring the process of commencing with the country’s oil production is accelerated.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resources and Community Development reprimanded the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) for not appearing before the committee previously.