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2019-10-292024-05-06Business
Illicit financial flows under spotlight
WINDHOEK - The Namibia University of Science and Technology supported by Bank Windhoek and Capricorn Group, last week hosted a two-day workshop for journalists and media students on the Investigation of Illicit Financial Flows and Money Laundering in Windhoek.
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2019-10-292024-06-18Front Page News
Corporate Governance Summit to focus on Namibia’s competitiveness
WINDHOEK – The Namibia Institute of Corporate Governance (NICG) is set to host the first-ever national corporate governance summit tomorrow, at Safari Hotel.
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2019-10-292024-05-07National
Opinion: When Zero is a Win….. Eliminating hunger and malnutrition from Africa
The noble task of eliminating hunger and malnutrition as set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the SDGs, as well as in the African Union 2025 Malabo Commitments, is actually a race against time towards delivering on the targets.
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2019-10-292024-06-18Crime and Courts
Inmate stabs another with screwdriver
WINDHOEK - An inmate at Omuthiya police holding cells is accused of having stabbed a fellow inmate with a screwdriver in the neck on Saturday afternoon.
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2019-10-292024-06-18Crime and Courts
American murder accused loses eighth lawyer
WINDHOEK – Windhoek High Court Judge Christi Liebenberg yesterday granted leave to local lawyer, Titus Ipumbu, to withdraw as the legal representative of American Marcus Thomas who is accused of the assassin-like murder of Andre Heckmair in Windhoek in 2011.
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2019-10-292024-04-30Front Page News
Social media dominate campaign trail
WINDHOEK – Namibia goes to the polls on 27 November but one hardly seems to see campaign posters, flyers or banners displayed by political parties on the streets as has been the case in past elections.
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2019-10-292024-04-30Front Page News
Namibia descendant wins seat in Botswana parliament
WINDHOEK – A member of the Botswana opposition coalition the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC), Cater Hikuama, on Friday became the second ‘Baherero’ (Herero) – as they known in that country – to be elected to the Botswana legislature since independence in 1963.
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2019-10-292024-06-18Crime and Courts
17 years’ imprisonment for rape of minor
WINDHOEK – The court should forsake the element of mercy in sentencing persons convicted of sexually abusing children, said magistrate Ileni Velikoshi when imposing a 17-year imprisonment term on a man who raped a five-year-old girl in 2015 at Havana, Katutura, Windhoek.
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2019-10-292024-06-18Crime and Courts
Gangster-style executioner accused wants bail
WINDHOEK - A 40-year-old Yemen national currently in police custody on suspicion he carried out a gangster-style execution of Malian national Gamby Baya in 2016 in Kleine Kuppe wants the court to release him on bail.