The death toll in last Friday's hand grenade explosion, in which two people died at their homestead in Lumina Village in the Mpacha area of the Zambezi Region, has risen to three.

President Hage Geingob is to leave for the United States of America this evening to undergo seven days of specialised medical treatment there.

A team of leading scientists and medical professionals will carry out the specialised treatment on Dr. Geingob in Los Angeles, California.

Euphoria has taken hold of Namibia following the Brave Warriors' historic 1-0 win over Tunisia in the African Cup of Nations (AFCON).

A wedding reception was disrupted at Rehoboth over the weekend when an angry swarm of bees attacked the party.

Three suspected livestock thieves are in custody in the Karibib police holding cells following their arrest on Saturday.

They are expected to appear  in the Karibib Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, facing a host of charges, including attempted murder and robbery with aggravating circumstances.

Being condemned to serving a sentence in a correctional facility is not the end of the road; it is rather a bend in the road.

This became a reality today upon the release of Dr. Agrrey Makendano and Rodwell Sihela from the Windhoek Central Correctional Facility.

The remains of the late Bernhard !Gaeb, a former journalist at the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (nbc), was buried on Saturday at Mariental.
 
The 65-year-old !Gaeb, also affectionately known as Ou Berries, died of kidney failure.

The National Road Safety Council's yearly holiday season campaign kicked off today with a gathering of road safety stakeholders in Swakopmund, in the Erongo region.

The campaign runs from today until January 17, 2024, across the country, with a specific focus on the B1 and B2 highways.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Japanese Funds-in-Trust launched a pilot project to assist member states in Africa and small island developing states in the implementation of last year's 4th IR Summit's recommendation and benefit from technologies.

Between January 2019 and June 2022, UNESCO documented 759 individual attacks on journalists, including five murders, during 89 elections in 70 countries.