The state police engaged with heavily armed gunmen traveling in pickup trucks in Villa Union, a small town 65 km southwest of the border city of Piedras Negras
In the legislative elections that were held along with the presidential elections Geinob's party, the South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO), won 63 of the 96 seats
Merritt worked as the course coordinator for Learning Together, a prisoner reform programme run by the University of Cambridge's Institute of criminology.
The island country is aiming to prevent crime and drug trafficking in the local waters and has communicated with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)