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36 Articles found on Thursday, 9 September 2004
IMF sees Angola ending package by early 2005
09-09-2004
OUAGADOUGOU - The International Monetary Fund expects to agree a full lending package for Angola by early 2005 after a preliminary programme focusing in part on the use of oil revenues, a senior IMF
readAfrica poverty summit to focus on creating jobs
09-09-2004
OUAGADOUGOU - Heads of state from some two dozen African gathered here yesterday to craft a jobs creation plan that would lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and advance development on the
readGolden handshake for SAA boss
09-09-2004
JOHANNESBURG - The Democratic Alliance will submit parliamentary questions to the minister of public enterprises this week asking for the amounts of the retrenchment packages of all SAA's and
readPetra says recovers diamonds in Angola
09-09-2004
JOHANNESBURG - Petra Diamonds Limited said yesterday it had recovered a significant number of gem quality diamonds from the Alto Cuilo project in northeastern Angola.It said it had processed an
readMurray&Roberts ups Cememtation offer
09-09-2004
JOHANNESBURG - South African industrial and engineering group Murray & Roberts increased its mandatory offer to remaining shareholders in Cementation, the firm said yesterday.Murray & Roberts said
readNTB introduces new tourism and levy regulations
09-09-2004
THE Namibia Tourism Board (NTB) has launched the new tourism and levy regulations in a bid to establish a benchmark of quality and ensuring high standards are maintained by all players in the
readSACU, India in FTA discussions
09-09-2004
AS part of positioning itself in the global economy in the ever growing global village, the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is contemplating fostering closer economic ties with India.SACU -
readNA passes 'draconian' stock theft Bill
09-09-2004
A LAW that will put stock thieves behind bars for up to 30 years was passed in the National Assembly yesterday, despite being described as "draconian" by some lawmakers.Congress of Democrats Member of
readAgribank board under pressure
09-09-2004
THE Ministry of Finance has tightened the screws on Agribank directors, ordering management to stop dealing with the board.Agribank management has also been instructed to withhold sitting payments for
readCoD charges budget delay a poll ploy
09-09-2004
THE Congress of Democrats has accused Government of trying to hide what it calls a "hefty and generous golden handshake" for outgoing President Sam Nujoma.Addressing a press conference in Windhoek
readBill to provide for golden handshake for President
09-09-2004
TAXPAYERS can expect to fork out for an exit package for President Sam Nujoma when he steps down as the country's first president early next year.Minister of Justice Albert Kawana gave notice in the
readGreen facelift for Mariental
09-09-2004
MARIENTAL - The Mariental Municipality has started planting about 1 500 trees as part of its efforts to beautify the southern town.The municipality has already planted trees in cemeteries in the
readAgra to open feeding kraal in the South
09-09-2004
MARIENTAL - Farmers in the Hardap Region will soon be able to sell below market value livestock to Agra Co-operative at the southern town.Agra recently completed the construction of a feeding kraal
readOpuwo mortuary to open doors soon
09-09-2004
OPUWO - The newly-constructed Opuwo Police Mortuary will soon be open for the storage of corpses.The Station Commander of the Opuwo Police Station, Inspector Robert Sanjahi, told Nampa that the
readLate ex-PS to be buried on Saturday
09-09-2004
FORMER permanent secretary in the Ministry of Regional and Local Government and Housing, Nghidimondjila Shoombe, will be laid to rest in Ongwediva on Saturday, according to funeral arrangements
readWomen have come a long way, but...
09-09-2004
WHAT is the status of women in political and economic leadership in Namibia? This question was asked and explored by members of the Namibia Economic Society (NES) at a breakfast meeting in Windhoek
readMan stabbed to death in tiff, woman found dead in bed
09-09-2004
OUTAPI - A man from Oshondo village in the Omusati Region died at the Oshakati State Hospital earlier this week, where he was admitted after another man stabbed him in the stomach last Friday.Sergeant
readExtras slow completion of Katutura Soccer Stadium
09-09-2004
ADDITIONAL construction work on the Katutura Soccer Stadium has delayed the final completion date to February 2005.The City of Windhoek originally said the stadium would be completed by the end of
readNacso backs Cites ivory plea
09-09-2004
AN association that supports community-based natural resources management has thrown its weight behind Namibia's plea to Cites to be allowed to trade in ivory once a year.Patricia Skeyer, the
readNored still awaiting Kapia response
09-09-2004
ELECTRICITY company Nored will wait until next week to hear if Swapo Party Youth League leader Paulus Kapia will apologise for slanderous remarks he made almost a month ago.Toivo Shovaleka, acting
readGovt partly eases ban on SA chicken imports
09-09-2004
GOVERNMENT has agreed to allow local importers of poultry products to obtain certain supplies from five South African sites that have been identified as "safe".Chief Veterinary Officer Archie Norval
readEquatorial Guinea's oil boom leaves poor behind
09-09-2004
MALABO - Marisa knows she is living in Africa's new oil-rich Eldorado but that hasn't helped her find the cash to buy shoes for her six children.Like many in Equatorial Guinea, a tiny central African
readAustralian tips give hope to parched Botswana farms
09-09-2004
PANDAMATENGA, Botswana - The sun-scorched scrub stretching as far as the eye can see could easily be in the Australian outback - only there are no kangaroos.In fact it is Botswana, but Peter Schuurs
readAncient treasures shed light on past glory of Sudan
09-09-2004
LONDON - Sudan, torn by civil war, human misery and upheaval, was not always that way.For centuries Africa's biggest country was a jewel in the continent's cultural crown -- rich, powerful and a
readAt 5, Indian girl has a back-breaking job
09-09-2004
SILIGURI, India - Stone chips fly as Rina, her face frowning in concentration, expertly crushes a rock to rubble in just a few seconds on the banks of a swift brown river in eastern India.With the
readManila fails to learn from garbage tragedy
09-09-2004
MANILA - It's business as usual at Payatas, Manila's largest rubbish dump.Four years after a mountain of garbage collapsed at the open dump, killing 205 people and burying a slum colony ironically
readBush gets his knickers in a knot
09-09-2004
POPLAR BLUFF - US President George W Bush apparently mixed up his words on Monday while delivering his usual campaign speech about the rising cost of health care.Bush offered an unexpected reason for
readPeace Prize goes to pilgrim route
09-09-2004
MADRID - Spain's top peace award this year goes to... a path.The 'Camino de Santiago', a Christian pilgrim route through France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela, traditionally considered the burial
readIranians listed as 'shields'
09-09-2004
TEHRAN - Thousands of Iranians are expected to volunteer to act as human shields in case of a military attack on one of the country's key nuclear facilities, the group organising the effort said
readChina speaks on 'sex arrest'
09-09-2004
HONG KONG - Chinese police produced more evidence yesterday to justify the arrest last month of a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician for hiring a prostitute, but refused to say if they would release
readZim police nab rights leader
09-09-2004
HARARE - Zimbabwe police on Wednesday arrested the leader of civic rights group National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) for an illegal demonstration last week against a proposed law barring foreign
readUK kids doll up as early as seven
09-09-2004
LONDON - Even as young as seven, British girls are using make-up, mimicking pop idols and parents in a pitch for early adulthood, according to a consumer intelligence group.More than three in five of
readThatcher called to the stand
09-09-2004
CAPE TOWN - Former british prime minister Margaret Thatcher's son Mark has been subpoenaed to formally answer accusations he helped to finance a coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea, his lawyer
readRussia 'ready to strike'
09-09-2004
BESLAN, Russia - Russia's top general threatened yesterday to attack "terrorist bases" anywhere in the world, as security services put a US$10 million bounty on two Chechen rebels they blame for last
readAmericans dead in Iraq pass 1000 mark
09-09-2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A spate of attacks, including a suicide car bombing, pushed the number of US military deaths in the Iraq campaign past 1 000, with the majority inflicted by an insurgency that grew
readSudan denies Darfur genocide claims
09-09-2004
TOKYO - Sudan's foreign minister said yesterday that there was no ethnic cleansing or genocide in the country's Darfur region and rejected a United Nations estimate that 50 000 people have been
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