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While sharing and harvesting ideas for the national budget formulation, finance minister Iipumbu Shiimi says education and health sectors remain priorities, despite repeated undesirable results. 

A 56-year-old female lecturer at the University of Namibia’s Hifikepunye Pohamba campus allegedly committed suicide in her designated lecture hall yesterday.

A matter in which the deputy minister of finance Maureen Hinda-Mbuende is suing the former mayor of Windhoek, Job Amupanda to the tune of N$1 million commenced in the Windhoek High Court Monday, with the deputy minister taking the stand.

President Hage Geingob, in his capacity as chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence, and Security Cooperation, is set to participate in the 43rd Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, slated to convene today and end tomorrow in Luanda, Angola.

The president of Madagascar’s chief of staff and an “associate” have been charged with bribery offences in Britain following a “fast-paced” police investigation, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said Monday.

Niger’s military regime vowed late Sunday to prosecute ousted president Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and slammed West African leaders for imposing sanctions on the country.

Bank Windhoek’s Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) division recently hosted an SME information session in Ondangwa and Oshakati in collaboration with the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) northern office.

Hyphen Hydrogen Energy (Hyphen) yesterday announced the signing of a partnership agreement with ILF Consulting Engineers (ILF), a leading independent international engineering and consulting firm, to support the delivery of its ground breaking green hydrogen project. 

Workers at the Peugeot plant in Walvis Bay, in which government owns a 49% stake and French automaker Groupe PSA has a majority 51% share, continue receiving their basic salaries and locally assembled vehicles are still being sold domestically despite the factory being under care and maintenance.

The traditional home-brewed beer, ‘tombo’, and other related fermented brews, such as the famous ‘kachansu’, appear to be causing more chaos than joy in the Zambezi region.