The Patriot in its main story headlined the continued suspension of the Chief of Windhoek City Police, who has been on suspension since March 2018.
Kanime told the weekly that he is still suspended despite intervention by President Hage Geingob, who instructed the city council to lift it.
“Ask Kahimise why I am not back,” is Kanime response to the newspaper, referring the queries to Windhoek CEO Robert Kahimise, who suspended him, over alleged unauthorised use of city funds.
Many constituency councillors have raised fear about looming hunger, and that most households in their jurisdictions have run out of food, and have resorted to begging, according to The Namibian.
This was also confirmed by the agriculture ministry that most households in crop-producing regions would have no food by the end of May this year.
Windhoek Observer observes that the umpteenth delay in the tabling of the 2019/20 budget have raised suspicion amongst economist that the economy might be in deep trouble than widely thought.
Finance minister Calle Schlettwein is expected to table the budget on March 28, after it was postponed twice.
However, Schlettwein told the newspaper that the delay was due to logistical challenges in the National Assembly.
According to New Era, lawyers representing the Ovaherero and Nama in the genocide lawsuit against the German government have filed a notice of appeal in the US Court of Appeals, after the US Federal Court in New York dismissed class-action lawsuit filed by the two communities for alleged crimes against humanity.
The daily said District Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed the case reasoning that Germany was immune from claims by descendants of the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, depriving her of jurisdiction over its role in what some historians have called the 20th century’s first genocide.