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34 Articles found on Wednesday, 28 July 2004
World Bank urges Kenya to act on graft
28-07-2004
NAIROBI - The World Bank urged Kenya yesterday to act against corruption following accusations by graft watchdogs that officials were stealing public funds.President Mwai Kibaki is under fire from
readWTO okays Libya as candidate for membership
28-07-2004
GENEVA - In its latest success in moving from pariah state to international respectability, oil-rich Libya yesterday was accepted as a candidate for membership in the World Trade Organisation.WTO
readNamibia represented on IMF committee
28-07-2004
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has appointed a representative from the Bank of Namibia, Ipumbu Shiimi, to serve on a committee of experts to be known as the Balance of Payments Technical
readSwakop Chamber to bide its time
28-07-2004
THE Swakopmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has decided to remain dormant for another year following its decision last year to unite with the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry
readOkakarara in deep trouble
28-07-2004
PROMPT intervention by the school management and the Student Representative Council (SRC) averted a serious stayaway by pupils of the Okakarara Secondary School yesterday over the ongoing water and
readTown council puts the bite on critics
28-07-2004
THE Omaruru municipality has issued a week's deadline demanding that two leaders of a group that has been criticising the administration of the town to pay their outstanding accounts or face
readBoeing, Boeing, GONE!
28-07-2004
AT LAST! The deal has been sealed and Air Namibia's money-gobbling Boeing 747-400 Combi has been sold.After more than two years in search of a buyer, Air Namibia yesterday breathed a jumbo sigh of
readTown council puts the bite on critics
28-07-2004
THE Omaruru municipality has issued a week's deadline demanding that two leaders of a group that has been criticising the administration of the town to pay their outstanding accounts or face
readTourism industry urged to embrace land reform
28-07-2004
THE tourism industry in Namibia should not be a passive spectator in the land reform process but play an active role to help ensure that the programme was successfully carried out.Chief Executive
readPlea for Opuwo roads to be upgraded
28-07-2004
OPUWO - Grinaker-LTA and the Roads Contractor Company (RCC) have urged Government to make N$3,2 million available for the improvement of roads here.Hannes Dijkstra from Burmeister &
readNew town in the making
28-07-2004
RUNDU - The Nkurenkuru settlement, 145 kilometres west of Rundu in the Kavango Region, will be developed into a town within the next three years, Regional and Local Government and Housing Permanent
readGovernment to reduce spending on roads
28-07-2004
GOVERNMENT funding for the maintenance and rehabilitation of national roads would be reduce over time at the same time as the need to build and improve rural roads increased, Finance Minister Saara
readManagement college shuts due to 'bad management'
28-07-2004
SOME students registered with the Business Management College of Namibia are up in arms after it closed suddenly and without notice because of 'poor management'.Students said they attended classes for
readVandals switch traffic lights around
28-07-2004
TRAFFIC Police in Windhoek registered 226 accidents this month - and this number excludes all those accidents that are reported to Police stations throughout the capital.In a bizarre and potentially
readI did not intend to kill my brother, says pipe murder accused
28-07-2004
AN Outapi district resident who stands accused of having beaten his teenaged brother to death with a hosepipe is set to continue to testify in his own defence in the High Court today.The trial of
readMeob Bay probe enters final stage
28-07-2004
THE Marine Court investigating the sinking of the MFV Meob Bay fishing vessel will hear final arguments on Saturday before passing judgement.The Meob Bay, owned by Marco Fishing, sank off Luederitz in
readDTA sets sights on November elections
28-07-2004
THE race is officially on to select a new national leadership for the country's main opposition party, the DTA.Yesterday, the party announced the start of primaries across the 112 political
readTerrorism sways the swing vote
28-07-2004
WITH a decisive, tie-breaking vote to cast in the Supreme Court appeal over the discharge of 13 accused from the Caprivi high treason case, Acting Judge of Appeal Fred Chomba reminded himself of a
readCaprivi 13 rulings: A matter of rights
28-07-2004
A WEEK ago, the Supreme Court ruled by a 3-2 margin that 13 Caprivi high treason suspects had been wrongly discharged from the case that they and 107 co-accused face in the High Court at Grootfontein.
readResidents threaten to tear up SELCo contract
28-07-2004
DISTRESSED residents of Keetmanshoop have mandated their town council to cancel the contentious contract signed between the Southern Electricity Company (SELCo) and the previous town councillors.Close
readMotorists in for a bloodletting
28-07-2004
FUEL prices in Namibia are expected to rise sharply in the next three years, irrespective of the influence of the usual culprits - international oil producers and currency fluctuations.Levies on
readUnited Airlines victims to hoax bomb threat
28-07-2004
SYDNEY, Australia - A written bomb threat forced a United Airlines jet to return to Sydney International Airport yesterday after it took off for Los Angeles, but police declared the threat a hoax
readZim seeks to lure foreign investors
28-07-2004
HARARE - Zimbabwe's central bank announced yesterday a new measure to attract much-needed foreign investment: a guarantee to pay back the entire capital within three months if investors decided to
readOuseb to finalise move to Swallows
28-07-2004
MOROKA Swallows coach Gavin Hunt says he expects Namibian international Mohammed Ouseb to sign a one-year contract with the South African premiership club tomorrow.Hunt told The Namibian Sport from
readNRU hunts for new rugby coach
28-07-2004
THE Namibia Rugby Union (NRU) has said it plans to appoint new national coaching staff before the end of the week.This follows the sudden resignation of Namibia rugby head coach, Danie Vermeulen, and
readSwindling great-granny with gambling habit busted
28-07-2004
ROME - Italian police have arrested an 80-year-old great-grandmother suspected of drugging and robbing easily fooled victims for years to feed her gambling habit.Vittoria Benetti was detained after
readBill Clinton, getting the gang ready to rock and roll
28-07-2004
Searching for a way to describe Hillary Clinton's popularity with Democrats, ABC News anchor Peter Jennings said last night, as the crowd at the FleetCenter in Boston cheered her, "Senator Clinton is
readSaddam writes poems, gardens in prison
28-07-2004
LONDON - Saddam Hussein appears depressed and demoralised in solitary confinement, spending his time writing poetry, tending a garden and reading the Quran, according to a report published on Monday
readBurundi rebels back to share
28-07-2004
BUJUMBURA - Burundi's largest Hutu rebel faction ended an almost three-month boycott of the country's power-sharing government yesterday, saying a list of demands including more official appointments
readPalestinian PM drops resignation
28-07-2004
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Prime minister Ahmed Qorei ended a paralysing crisis in the ranks of the Palestinian leadership yesterday by burying his differences with Yasser Arafat and agreeing to stay on as
readSudan says US uses Darfur to topple govt
28-07-2004
ADDIS ABABA - Washington is using the Darfur crisis as a pretext to topple the Sudanese government, Khartoum's envoy to the African Union (AU) said yesterday.Ousman Alsaid also told reporters Western
readFour Guantanamo prisoners handed over to France
28-07-2004
PARIS - Four of the seven French nationals held at the US prison complex at Guantanamo Bay were handed over to French authorities yesterday and flown back to France, where they were immediately taken
readHope for Zim's return to Commonwealth
28-07-2004
ABUJA - Nigeria's president Olusegun Obasanjo, the chairman of the African Union (AU), on Monday expressed hope that Zimbabwe would rejoin the Commonwealth by next year, an official statement
readWorld Bank urges Kenya to act on graft
28-07-2004
NAIROBI - The World Bank urged Kenya yesterday to act against corruption following accusations by graft watchdogs that officials were stealing public funds.President Mwai Kibaki is under fire from
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