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Fire claims toddler's life Rudi Bowe
For many, looking for better opportunities by migrating from rural to urban areas, shack dwellings are the only affordable accommodation in urban areas. This past week, a fire broke out in Kuisebmond, resulting in the death of a three-year-old boy, Iyaloo Abisalom, and burnt to ashes 23 informal dwellings leaving 111 people homeless. In Namibia, fire poses a serious risk to shack dwellings, often leading to injury or death, displacement, and damage of property. According to official figures, approximately one million Namibians live in informal dwellings, where largely due to the use of flammable construction
Swakopmund crime on increase Weekend of armed robbery at Mondesa Eileen van der Schyff
Seven men blind folded, gagged, tied up, robbed and assaulted a 30-year-old taxi driver before forcing him into the boot of his vehicle at Swakopmund's Mondesa on Saturday 12 March. According to a report from the police in the Erongo region, a case of Armed Robbery and Kidnapping was opened. After the assault, the driver, with head, eye, shoulder and stomach injuries, were forced inside the boot of his vehicle, where he remained while the suspects drove around, robbing more people at gunpoint on the streets of Mondesa. According to the Regional Crime Investigating Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Erastus Iikuyu, the taxi driver claims, through this ordeal, he heard a single gunshot while inside the boot of his taxi. The perpetrators eventually abandoned the taxi hours later behind the Festurs Gonteb Primary School, leaving the driver inside the boot. They took the keys of the vehicle, jack and locknut. The driver described the men as Oshiwambo speaking, dark in complex, and one of the suspects are tall with Rasta braids. No arrests have been made yet. In another incident, on the same day, a case of robbery with aggravating circumstances was also opened at Mondesa police station after the same suspects who robbed the taxi driver allegedly robbed and assaulted a 43year-old and 39-year-old victim. According to Deputy Commissioner Iikuyu, the suspects, one armed with Continues on page 2
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Namibia Continues on page 2 celebrates Namibia's International Energy 32 years of indeConference The 4th edition of Namibia's International Energy Conference pendence (NIEC), which has become the official meeting place for the energy industry, will be held from 20 – 21 April in Windhoek, Namibia, under the theme “The energy mix: positioning for industrialisation, investment and growth”.
Organised by RichAfrica Consultancy with the support of the Africa Energy Chamber (www.EnergyChamber.org), the two-day energy sector event will be held under the patronage of the Ministry of Mines and Energy led by Honourable Minister Tom Alweendo. The NIEC thought leadership event will convene energy stakeholders with
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