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Windhoek High Court Judge Herman January on Friday dismissed an application by a former teacher who allegedly stabbed his wife 12 times in front of their children, causing her death, to quash two of the charges he is facing.

The Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia has handed over three completed greenhouse units, a hydroponic unit for fodder production, a nursery, one borehole retrofitted with solar as well as a 10 000-litre water tank and a cold storage facility to the Okongo Community Forestry Horticultural Project in the Ohangwena region last Tuesday.

A technical committee has been appointed to meet liberation struggle icon and parliamentarian Jerry Ekandjo over the Swapo central committee’s (CC) decision not to include him in the race for vice president at next month’s intraparty elective congress. 

The police have indicated that the remains of Adrian Myne Oswyn (6), who was brutally killed and dismembered two weeks ago in Karibib, will be released to the family this week.

The Agro-Marketing and Trade Agency (AMTA) is concerned about certain individuals who have been accused of smuggling fresh produce into the country via ungazetted entry points from neighbouring countries such as Zambia and Angola.

A man drowned in the Greenwell Matongo residential area while trying to unblock a sewage drain at about 14h00 on Saturday.

African Union (AU) Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat has lauded Namibia’s democratic principles, saying the country demonstrates the rule of law, which many countries on the continent should emulate.

The High Court is waiting on the results of the psychological evaluation done on Johann Maree, a former police reservist, facing multiple counts of rape for allegedly sexually abusing underage boys, filming and selling pornographic materials of them on the dark web. 

Residents of the Usab and Harambee informal settlements in the Erongo region are appealing to the Karibib town council to bring electricity to their settlements.