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23 Articles found on Monday, 12 July 2004
Oil holds near US$40 as supply concerns linger
12-07-2004
NEW YORK - World oil prices held firm near US$40 (N$120) a barrel on Friday after weekly data showed surprisingly strong demand in the United States that is soaking up extra OPEC output and leaving
readZim poised for growth in 2005
12-07-2004
JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe, which has been mired in a deep economic and political crisis, has halted its sharp economic decline and is poised for positive growth from 2005, one of Africa's top banks said
readEU, SADC launch trade negotiations
12-07-2004
SEVEN Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states and the European Union (EU) last week launched negotiations for Economic and Partnership Agreements (EPA) aimed at promoting trade and
readNBC rocks boat on costly TV deal
12-07-2004
THE NBC has pulled the plug on a lucrative television programmes deal with Rock Enterprises amid reports that State House has called for a probe into the contract to establish who benefited from the
readOffice of the President goes after Kaulinge
12-07-2004
GOVERNMENT has dismissed suggestions that President Sam Nujoma used tax money for electioneering and says the authorities plan to prosecute the former senior official who made the statement.Former
readMine eyes Ongombo West
12-07-2004
COPPER producer Ongopolo Mining and Processing says it plans to approach Government for mining rights at farm Ongombo West after the property has been expropriated.Ongopolo Managing Director Andre
readThe LAC: 16 years of promoting human rights
12-07-2004
On Friday, the Legal Assistance Centre celebrated its 16th anniversary. Director NORMAN TJOMBE gives an overview of some of the Centre's work.BY mid-1988, Namibia was firmly under the iron fist of
readTeacher charged with theft of money
12-07-2004
OSHAKATI - A 41-year-old teacher from Eengedjo Secondary School at Omungwelume in the Ohangwena Region made a brief appearance in the Oshakati Magistrate's Court on Wednesday to face a charge of
readBike death throws spotlight on the Walvis-Swakop road
12-07-2004
THE recent placing of concrete pillars next to the road between Swakopmund and Walvis Bay has become the cause of a raging debate following the death of a motorbike rider last weekend.Newspapers have
readNYC office bearer at centre of funding row
12-07-2004
A VISIT to a businessman to solicit funds for a regional youth organisation has landed the suspended Head of the National Youth Council's (NYC) Youth Health, Gender and Welfare, Sacky Amenya, in
read'Marriages of convenience' run into flak in National Assembly
12-07-2004
DEPUTY Minister of Home Affairs Loide Kasingo has called on Parliament to consider amending laws that give foreigners automatic citizenship after two years of marriage to a Namibian."We must get rid
readKibaki pays tribute to Nujoma
12-07-2004
NAIROBI - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki paid tribute to his visiting Namibian counterpart Sam Nujoma, who is due to retire next year, calling him "a great source of pride for Africa," an official
readOngwediva CEO laid to rest
12-07-2004
THE Chief Executive Officer of Ongwediva, Auguste Namupala Taanyanda (44) who died in the Rhino Park Hospital in Windhoek last Wednesday, was buried at Ontananga in the Oshikoto Region yesterday.The
readRobben Island Trust Fund launched
12-07-2004
A TRUST Fund to assist dozens of Namibians who were imprisoned on Robben Island, off South Africa, during the struggle for Independence has finally gotten off the ground.The Robben Island Veterans
readEx-principal jailed over exam paper scam
12-07-2004
ISAAC "Ike" le Roux, the former acting Principal of Augustineum Secondary School in Windhoek who was accused of having leaked Grade 12 examination papers to students in 2002, was convicted and
readUnited win Derby
12-07-2004
United's rugby and netball teams both beat Wanderers in their annual derby at the United Club in Windhoek on Saturday.United's first rugby team beat Wanderers I 12-3 after leading 6-3 at halftime.
readSalambria wins July Handicap
12-07-2004
Salambria put up a dazzling performance to win the 1 900 meter Windhoek July Handicap horse race in the capital on Saturday.Before winning the major title, Salambria took first place in the second
readNamibia knocked out of Youth Cup
12-07-2004
A headed goal in the 88th minute of the game by Burundian midfielder Diomede Ngabo knocked Namibia out of the Confederation of African Football Youth Championships at Windhoek's Independence Stadium
readMugabe loosing the pups of war?
12-07-2004
HARARE - Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has urged young ruling party supporters to wage a "vigorous campaign" to win next year's general elections, saying he will hold them answerable for any
readTel Aviv blast 'neccesitates wall'
12-07-2004
TEL AVIV - A Palestinian bomb killed a woman at a bus stop in Israel yesterday in an attack Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said proved the need to continue building a West Bank barrier declared illegal
readProtesters march at start of Bangkok AIDS conference
12-07-2004
BANGKOK - Around 1,000 activists and protesters urged organisers of the world's biggest ever AIDS conference yesterday to focus on providing cheaper treatment to more people.Marking the opening day of
readUS press questions Iraq war justification
12-07-2004
WASHINGTON - A Senate probe into CIA failures in pre-war Iraq intelligence made headlines in US newspapers, which questioned on Saturday how US President George W Bush and his war planners used the
readNigeria on brink of violent implosion:Soyinka
12-07-2004
ABEOKUTA - Oil exporter Nigeria is heading for a violent implosion that would dwarf the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, Nobel literature laureate Wole Soyinka said on Thursday.A wave of mass killings
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