-A 14-year-old girl from Katutura, Windhoek allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself around 12h00 on Friday.

-A Grade 8 learner of Duinesig school in Walvis Bay committed suicide on Monday.

A 23-year-old man committed suicide on Saturday morning after he allegedly updated his WhatApp status that he intended to do so.

-The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Oshana Region have opened an inquest docket following shocking reports of a 101-year-old woman who allegedly committed suicide in the region at the weekend.

-A 29-year-old man committed suicide after a quarrel with his girlfriend at Outjo in the Kunene Region.

-A strike in 2015, to petition fishing companies in Lüderitz and Walvis Bay to pay their workers overtime, proper safe working conditions and night shift allowances, led to a thousand of those workers dismissed from their work after the strike was deemed illegal.

-An Ongwediva-based businessman has shot his wife and turned the gun on himself Friday evening.

Cases of gender-based violence (GBV) and suicide are becoming a cause for concern in the Kavango East Region.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) on Thursday launched a report on the national study of prevalence and interventions for suicide, in the capital.

-Suicide is the second leading cause of death in Namibia. As a result, the Ministry of Health and Social Services wants to come up with a national prevention and treatment strategic plan on suicide.