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31 Articles found on Thursday, 3 March 2005
Man-eaters meet their match
03-03-2005
THE ELEPHANT MARSH, Malawi - Khalid Hassen slows his boat and glides toward his quarry, a headlamp his only guide through the African night.Suddenly his target is caught in the glare: a four-metre
readCongo warlords live high life despite bloody past
03-03-2005
KINSHASA - On a humid night in Kinshasa, six men sit at a table littered with beer bottles.This is no ordinary group of drinkers. At the head of the table sits a government official, putting away
readBirds of prey in a dogfight for survival
03-03-2005
THE uncontrolled and irresponsible use of poison remains one of the biggest threats to birds of prey in Namibia.More than 20 people met at Okatjikona at the Waterberg Plateau Park recently to discuss
read100 cities join climate rescue drive
03-03-2005
LONDON - Britain launched a campaign on Tuesday to tackle the global climate change crisis through the sharing of information between 100 cities in 60 countries from Argentina to Vietnam.The network
readPM wants new residence at Swakop
03-03-2005
PRIME MINISTER Theo-Ben Gurirab has requested a sea-front plot from the Swakopmund Town Council for the development of an official residence. In response to a request from the Prime Minister in
readParliament to discuss border control bills
03-03-2005
HOME Affairs Minister Jerry Ekandjo will forge ahead with his long-standing, controversial plan to transfer certain functions of immigration officials to the Police today, despite more than two years
readWe're no fowl outfit: GIPF
03-03-2005
THE Government Institutions Pension Fund (GIPF) yesterday rushed to try and reassure its shareholders Namibia's about 80 000 civil servants that their N$19 billion pension fund is in sound
readSecond Mooren suspect free on bail
03-03-2005
A SECOND suspect in the Mooren murder case, which caused a public outcry at Swakopmund last year, was granted bail in the Magistrate's court last week.Matti Kamati (35) was granted bail of N$4 000
readNo bail in baby-dumping case
03-03-2005
THE 23-year-old woman from Walvis Bay who was arrested last week for abandoning her newborn baby, was refused bail in the Walvis Bay Magistrate's Court.Carien van Staden, a bartender at the Walvis Bay
read2nd case delayed
03-03-2005
THE starting date of the second Caprivi high treason trial has been pushed back to May 16.The trial of 12 alleged members of a separatist movement that is claimed to have been active in the Caprivi
readWorks investigation extended
03-03-2005
CHRISTOF MALETSKY GOVERNMENT has extended indefinitely the suspension of five top officials probed for allegations of tender bribery and fraud in the Ministry of Works, Transport and
readGovt overspending has become a habit
03-03-2005
THE Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has once again felt the need to berate Government departments for spending beyond their means, in most cases without approval from the treasury.Committee
readTreason trial Judge to rule on second 'media gag' bid
03-03-2005
THE Caprivi high treason trial is set to resume in the High Court at Grootfontein today with the trial's second ruling on a prosecution application for the protection of a witness's identity.There
readBashir centre stage in Jackson trial
03-03-2005
SANTA MARIA - Jurors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case watched the TV documentary that sparked the case, seeing the pop star and the boy who would become his accuser appearing as happy
readBashir centre stage in Jackson trial
03-03-2005
SANTA MARIA - Jurors in the Michael Jackson child molestation case watched the TV documentary that sparked the case, seeing the pop star and the boy who would become his accuser appearing as happy
readIn Brief
03-03-2005
LONDON - World powers on Tuesday demanded immediate Palestinian action to catch those behind a suicide bombing in Israel, but also offered support for reforms aimed at halting violence and preparing
readOngeshefa Pupkewitz mOshakati
03-03-2005
OMUNANGESHEFA Harold Pupukewitz, okwa egulula ongeshefa yIitungitho noyokulanditha iihauto mOshakati ndjoka ya egululwa pambelewa kOministeli yOmavi, Hifikepunye Pohamba mEtitano lya zi ko.Pethimbo ta
readGumwe a tindilwa obeila mekwatonkonga
03-03-2005
OSHAKATI - Ompangu ya Mengestrata pOshakati oya tindile obeila omulumementu gumwe OmuRwanda gwoomvula 34, a lopotelwa ekwatonkonga lyokanona koomvula ntano oshiwike sha zi ko mondoolopa
readOmalugodhi ga tameka ishewe mu Ivory Coast
03-03-2005
ABIDJAN - Aakwiita yEpangelo mu Ivory Coast oya ponokele Oorebele dhongudu yo FLGO muuninginino wa Ivory Coast, Omaandaha goshiwike shika, shoka she eta uumbanda kutya otashi vulika moshilongo shika
readOshipotha sha ECN, RP na CoD mOmpangu nena
03-03-2005
OSHIPOTHA shoka sha ningilwa Oshikondo shomahogololo mOmpangu yOpombanda koongundu dhompilameno unene tuu ndjoka ya Republican Party (RP) na CoD, otashi ka pulakenwa mOmpangu nena konima owala yiiwike
readLogical into junior tennis
03-03-2005
MORE than 100 children will strut their stuff in the first-ever Logical Junior Tennis Tournament that will take place at the Central Tennis Courts in Windhoek between March 11 and 12.Logical
readMutorwa signs youth games protocol
03-03-2005
PREPARATIONS for the second Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) Zone Six Youth Games in Namibia were set into motion with the signing of the Games Protocol Agreement recently.Minister of Basic
readKaras, Hardap select squads for Cup
03-03-2005
HARDAP, the host region for the fifth edition of The Namibian Newspaper Cup, has selected a group of 27 players for the tournament taking place in Mariental at the end of this month.Regional
readSquad for Botswana leaked
03-03-2005
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) and caretaker coach Max Johnson remain tight-lipped on the announcement of the senior national squad, which is to face Botswana in the Cosafa Castle Cup in
readFounder of Amnesty Group dies
03-03-2005
PETER BENENSON, a British lawyer whose outrage over the imprisonment of two Portuguese students for drinking a toast to liberty spawned the human rights organisation Amnesty International in 1961,
readHong Kong chief to resign
03-03-2005
Hong Kong's chief executive Tung Chee-hwa has decided to resign for health reasons, according to local press reports.Tung, 67, took over as leader of the former British colony when it reverted to
readPeacekeepers kill 50 militiamen in DRC
03-03-2005
KINSHASA - UN Pakistani peacekeepers killed at least 50 militiamen in a clash in northeastern Congo on Tuesday, a week after nine Bangladeshi UN troops were killed there, senior UN sources said on
readUS steps up pressure on Syria
03-03-2005
LONDON - The Bush administration is applying its strongest pressure to date on Syria, insisting on an immediate withdrawal from neighbouring Lebanon and blaming terrorists based in Syria for last
readApple Mac's grandpa logs out
03-03-2005
SAN JOSE - Jef Raskin, a computer interface expert who conceived Apple Computer Inc's groundbreaking Macintosh computer but left the company before it came to market, has died.He was 61. Raskin died
read'Goodbye Oom Ray'
03-03-2005
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki and former president Nelson Mandela heaped praise on the late Raymond Mhlaba at his funeral in Port Elizabeth on Sunday.Mhlaba, a Rivonia treason trialist, spent 25
readJudge in Saddam tribunal assassinated
03-03-2005
BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a judge and lawyer working for the tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime, a day after the secret court referred five of the ousted dictator's
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