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A controversial tweet about a cultural event has not just caused a public outcry, but has now ignited a legal tit-for-tat. 

The Namibian Police have reportedly beefed up security for National Petroleum Corporation of Namibia board chairperson Jennifer Comalie after receiving information of an
alleged plot to harm her.

Rössing Uranium mine has denied claims that their voluntary separation process, which will see the mine’s workforce reduced by at least 400, is a disguised retrenchment.

As the world commemorates the World Health Organisation’s 75th anniversary tomorrow, Namibian President Hage Geingob commended the global progress in public health over the past decades, while highlighting some of the country’s achievements in the field. 

Farmers in the Daures constituency said their main source of income, farming, is being threatened by the increasing mining activities in the constituency.

Former City of Windhoek executive Fillemon Hambuda has lost the fight for his last salary at the City of Windhoek after the High Court dismissed his appeal.

Chief administrator of the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) Freddy Mwiya has welcomed the increased budget allocation to the commission, which will see it getting an allotment of N$17.5 million for the 2023/24 fiscal year. 

Twelve Namibian micro, small and medium enterprises will have an opportunity to showcase their products at the upcoming Creative Africa Nexus on the side-lines of the Intra-African Trade Fair in Cote d’Ivoire this November, following their success at the 2023 Technovation Social, which took place Windhoek on Friday 31 March 2023. 

Total debt as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) stood at 65.9% at the end of December 2022. This is 5.9 percentage points above the Southern African Development Community (SADC) benchmark of 60% of GDP.