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The country’s anti-graft agency has called for an immediate forensic investigation into a raft of corruption, nepotism and abuse of power allegations facing the Namibia University of Science and Technology’s vice chancellor Erold Naomab. 

Lack of job and educational opportunities on top of a shortage of capital to start businesses, are some of the serious impediments the visually impaired people in the Zambezi region grapple with daily. 

Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Bisey /Uirab yesterday said there is a trend emerging of developed countries that favour and actively promote protectionism and regionalism. 

A Gobabis resident, accused of killing his romantic partner during sexual intercourse, was last week found guilty of murder without intent to kill by Windhoek High Court judge Dinnah Usiku. 

Former Otjinene constituency c ounc i l l or Adol f Kangootui, who died on Sunday in Windhoek following a short illness, has been described as a highly-principled person, who was never afraid to speak truth to power. 

A 41-year-old woman allegedly ended her life by overdosing on pills in her flat at Nkurenkuru in the Kavango West region on Friday. 

There has been a significant decline in HIV prevalence among pregnant women in Namibia, the executive director in the health ministry Ben Nangombe has said 

Wagner mercenaries were headed back to base yesterday after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow their leader to avoid treason charges and accept exile in Belarus.

Hope and relief spread across Zambia on Friday after foreign lenders agreed to restructure part of the country’s debt, a win for president Hakainde Hichilema, who was elected on a promise to strengthen a buckling economy.