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40 Articles found on Wednesday, 24 August 2005
Scientists try to save rare and randy warbler
24-08-2005
LONDON - Europe's rarest songbird is facing extinction, despite being the most promiscuous and energetic lover in the avian world, and concerned scientists are looking urgently for ways to save
readPlans afoot to stop vile bile practice
24-08-2005
HANOI - Vietnam plans to plant microchips in an estimated 4 000 captive bears to try to stop wildlife traders catching more of the animals in the wild and selling them to bile farms, state media
readCall goes out for huge park to save last of the great mammals
24-08-2005
PARIS - The best way to save the planet's large wild mammals facing extinction this century, including lions, cheetahs, elephants and camels, is the creation of a huge nature preserve in the US
readGIPF and pensioners meet
24-08-2005
WINDHOEK - The Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) is planning to establish a pensioners' association with the aim to maintain a cordial relationship with the fund's Board of Trustees as well
readDRC to produce 10% of world cobalt
24-08-2005
LUBUMBASHI - OM Group Inc., the world's largest cobalt refiner, aims to produce more than 4 500 tonnes of cobalt - about 10 per cent of global supply -- from its Congo joint venture in 2006, the
readMeat companies come together
24-08-2005
TWO major meat companies, Hartlief and the Farmers' Meat Market Group, merged last week to make one effective force with the purpose of serving all segments of the Namibian meat industry and
readUnited Africa Group under fire in Kavango
24-08-2005
RUNDU - Some residents in the Kavango Region yesterday strongly appealed to the United Africa Group responsible for paying out pensions to improve their service delivery.The concern was raised through
readCosatu ally leads pressure on ANC
24-08-2005
CAPE TOWN - South Africa's trade unions and civil groups launched a new anti-poverty organisation on Monday, straining an alliance with the ruling ANC already tested by the sacking of populist Deputy
readDBN invests N$30m to aid SMEs
24-08-2005
AS the Bank Windhoek mentorship programme for small and medium businesses (SMEs) takes off, the commercial bank has partnered with a Government financial institution to further contribute towards
read'Hollywood' comes to the High Court
24-08-2005
WITH a turnout a first-time Hollywood movie producer would envy, hundreds of people pushed and shoved their way into the High Court yesterday, while more than 20 Police officers had their hands full
read'48 hours and I'll pay back the N$30m'
24-08-2005
JUST give Lazarus Kandara another 48 hours, and he will be able to return the N$30 million that the Social Security Commission invested through his company, Avid Investment Corporation, in late
readLid finally lifted on Avid shareholding
24-08-2005
THE Swapo Party Youth League was one of the shareholders of Avid Investment Corporation, and one of the League's more prominent members, National Youth Council Acting Secretary General Ralph Blaauw,
readKandara spills beans
24-08-2005
SWAPO Youth League leader and Works Deputy Minister Paulus Kapia, Ministry of Labour official Otniel Podewiltz, Acting Secretary General of the National Youth Council Ralph Blaauw and retired NDF
readDistance learners receive help with science
24-08-2005
THE Namibian College of Open Learning (Namcol) has produced a series of electronic lessons that will help students studying physical science.The electronic lessons were created as part of a pilot
readResentment simmers at Gibeon
24-08-2005
RESIDENTS at Gibeon last week took to the streets to protest alleged poor service by their village council.According to group leader Cynthia Uinuses, they demonstrated because the council had failed
readRegional media take stock
24-08-2005
MEDIA practitioners, policy makers and academics from all over the southern African region have been meeting in Windhoek since Monday to discuss the need for developing ethical guidelines and
readGIPF Chairman 'not suspended'
24-08-2005
THE embattled Chairman of the Government Institutions Pension Fund, Maru Tjihumino, has recused himself from all board meetings and was therefore not suspended, GIPF CEO Primus Hango said
readWoman shot in argument with husband
24-08-2005
A 30-year-old woman was shot and seriously injured during an argument with her husband in Hochland Park on Thursday night.Witnesses said the husband had pointed a gun at his head and threatened to
readGovt grants new oil exploration licences
24-08-2005
THE Ministry of Mines and Energy yesterday issued petroleum exploration licences to three leading companies in a move that is set to witness a heightened search for in Namibia.Speaking at the signing
readTatekulu Simon Haikela womOshalembe e tu fiya po
24-08-2005
T ATEKULU Simon Haikela, omukulupe weedula 88 womomukunda Oshalembe mOnheliwa mOukwanyama mOshitopowla sha Musati kwali, a dalwa modula 1917, omudo Ohamba Mandume ya Ndemufayo a fya, okwa hulifila
readOondjila adhihe odha thinda kOngwediva nokOndangwa
24-08-2005
O ONDJILA adhihe pehuliloshiwike shika odha thinda kOngwediva nokOndangwa omolwiiningwanima ya simana tayi ka kala mOondoolopa moka muule womasiku ngoka, mwa kwatelwa Iipindi nIilonga
readOwen says no to Everton move
24-08-2005
LONDON - English Premiership side Everton has failed in a bid to lure Michael Owen from Real Madrid to Goodison Park.The former Liverpool hero has had talks with several Premiership clubs in the wake
readArmstrong denies doping allegation
24-08-2005
LONDON - Seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has denied ever taking performance-enhancing drugs following a report in French newspaper L'Equipe that he had used the blood-boosting drug
readBiggest endurance ride billed for the coast
24-08-2005
THE largest endurance horse ride in Namibia will take place in Walvis Bay on August 31, with 121 horses expected to compete.The different distances in which riders will compete are 130 km, 93.6 km,
readLanger backs Kasper over Tait for Test spot
24-08-2005
NORTHAMPTON - Australia batsman Justin Langer has said Michael Kasprowicz, rather than Shaun Tait, should join Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee in the tourists' attack for the fourth Ashes Test at Trent
readNTA offers coaching course
24-08-2005
THE Namibia Tennis Association (NTA) is hosting a level-one coaching course at the Central Tennis Stadium in Olympia in association with the ITF (International Tennis Federation) and Namibia National
readBlue Waters, Santos to face Agosto
24-08-2005
THE owner of Roaches Restaurant at Oshakati, Tomane Rochas, has announced that a football tournament will be played in Oshakati over the coming weekend.The event has been organised in conjunction
readTop-class exploits expected in inline hockey tourney
24-08-2005
COASTAL Pirates Inline Hockey club will celebrate its tenth anniversary in style this weekend with its biggest tournament ever, when 40 teams with players from Germany, South Africa, Botswana and
readU-19 cricketers in semis
24-08-2005
THE MTC Namibian under-19 cricket team went through to the semi-finals in the qualifying tournament of the 2006 World Cup by beating Tanzania by six wickets at the Willowmoore Park in Benoni, South
readKarate team off to African champs
24-08-2005
A TEAM of four karate contestants and their officials yesterday left for Luanda, Angola, to compete in the African Senior Karate Championships.Namibia will be represented by the experienced Freddy
readJohn Bryson, celebrity photojournalist
24-08-2005
LOS ANGELES - John Bryson, a photojournalist for Life and other magazines known for shooting celebrities as they went about their daily lives, has died.He was 81. "I don't think I'm a lapdog
readLibya says to be taken off US terrorism list
24-08-2005
TRIPOLI - Libya expects the United States to remove it from Washington's list of sponsors of terrorism this year to seal their rapprochement after Tripoli abandoned a programme of prohibited weapons,
readIndia building collapse kills 11, many trapped
24-08-2005
MUMBAI - A four-storey residential building collapsed in India's financial capital Mumbai early yesterday, killing 11 people and leaving at least 25 trapped in the debris, police and hospital
readPoll worker killed in DRC's Ituri region
24-08-2005
KINSHASA - A voter registration worker has been killed in the Ituri region in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during an attack by militias, the UN Mission in the DRC
readAnnan tours hunger-stricken Niger
24-08-2005
ZINDER - Facing criticism that the United Nations acted too slowly to avert starvation in Niger, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited one of the worst affected areas yesterday to draw more
readIn Brief
24-08-2005
* BLAST - Jordan said it has arrested a Syrian national it suspects is the mastermind behind a rocket attack last week targeting US warships in the Red Sea port of Aqaba.* POLIO - Indonesia's recent
readUK reports drop in asylum seekers
24-08-2005
LONDON - The number of people applying for asylum in Britain fell again in the second quarter of this year and has now dropped 76 percent since its peak in October 2002, the government said
readTourists attacked in Kenya park
24-08-2005
NAIROBI - Five men armed with guns and machetes ambushed and robbed nine tourists returning from an evening game drive in Kenya's world famous Maasai Mara game reserve, police said yesterday.One of
readWe will fight to the end, vow West Bank protesters
24-08-2005
SANUR SETTLEMENT - Plumes of acrid black smoke and burning barricades awaited the Israeli troops who surged into the settlement of Sanur yesterday to clear radical Jewish settlers from the northern
readBush warns against retreat from Iraq
24-08-2005
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Amid growing calls for a US withdrawal from Iraq, US President George W.Bush fought back on Monday with a warning that "a policy of retreat and isolation will not bring us
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