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Festus Katuna Mbandeka is a Namibian lawyer and politician who was appointed Namibia's attorney general in Hage Geingob's second term cabinet on March 21, 2020. [1]

Mbandeka is a legal practitioner and was admitted to the profession by the High Court of Namibia in 1997. [2] Prior to his government position, he was the CEO of Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia from September 2015 to March 2020. [2] In the past, he also worked for the Office of the Attorney General, [3] sat on the board of directors of the Namibia Diamond Trading Company, [4] and was the legal advisor for Namibia's tech-com giant Mobile Telecommunication Company (MTC). [5]

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