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34 Articles found on Monday, 10 October 2005
What do aid workers do?
10-10-2005
FOREIGN NGOs are present both on the ground in Africa and also in the rich world's corridors of power lobbying for more and better aid.The London School of Economics' Centre for Global Governance
readForeign NGOs map a new route to African legitimacy
10-10-2005
NAIROBI - To their critics, foreign aid workers in Africa serve a new form of imperialism: in their zeal to do good, the argument goes, they prop up a humanitarian system that perpetuates the
readAlrosa and De Beers to look for diamonds
10-10-2005
MOSCOW - Russia's state-owned diamond company Alrosa will team up with De Beers to explore and develop potential mining sites in Russia and South Africa, Russia's Natural Resources Ministry said.The
readAnglo to unveil Kumba shake-up
10-10-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Diversified mining group Anglo American is due to unveil a restructuring of its majority-owned iron ore firm Kumba Resources next week, a mining news website said.Officials from Anglo
readZimbabwe clears power debt
10-10-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe's state power utility has cleared its outstanding debt with its counterparts in neighbouring South Africa and the Congo and is now able to pay in advance for its imports, a senior
readSA reserves rise
10-10-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's net reserves increased by $555 million during September, data showed on Friday, but there was still no sign of the capital flows from Barclay's purchase of a controlling
readOngombo workers will be looked after, says Katali
10-10-2005
GOVERNMENT has assured some of the workers at Ongombo West that they will be resettled on the expropriated farm.The workers pleaded with the Government not to chase them off the land once the
readClinic opened at Tsumkwe
10-10-2005
A MUCH-NEEDED clinic was opened at Tsumkwe last week by the Minister of Health and Social Services, Richard Kamwi, the donor Harald Grams and German actress and humanitarian Suzanne von Borsody.The
readUnited effort halts spread of veld fire
10-10-2005
UUVUDHIYA - A fire that raged for three days in the Uuvudhiya Constituency of the Oshana Region, destroying thousands of hectares of grazing, was finally extinguished on Tuesday night.In an interview
readWindhoek City Council moves in to curb land speculation
10-10-2005
SPECULATORS, eager to rake in quick money, are reportedly holding the property market at ransom by hoarding land and houses for resale.Investigations by The Namibian revealed that the pattern had
readFood aid appeal for SADC
10-10-2005
THE International Red Cross is to launch an international call for food aid for southern Africa next week.The 'Southern Africa Food Insecurity Appeal' is aimed at providing help such as agricultural
read'Kill all whites' call a strategy, says suspect
10-10-2005
A SELF-STYLED "black revolutionary" not only offered no apologies, but also repeated his call for all white people in Namibia to be killed when he appeared on a charge of racial discrimination in the
readEmotional send-off for Juanita Mabula
10-10-2005
HALFWAY through the memorial service of the late Juanita Mabula in Windhoek on Thursday night, a woman walked in clasping a grey plastic bag.The tiny hand of a child was enveloped by her other hand as
readTheft of Unam exam papers claimed
10-10-2005
MYSTERY surrounds a burglary at the University of Namibia at the weekend.While The Namibian was informed that University of South Africa (Unisa) exam papers were stolen, the University claimed it had
readWorld mobilises to help devastated South Asia
10-10-2005
ISLAMABAD - Rescue experts, medical teams, sniffer dogs and supplies were mobilised yesterday as a worldwide effort began bringing aid to victims of a massive earthquake that struck South Asia.Japan,
readControversial lodge triggers conflict among communities
10-10-2005
TENSION is growing between three conservancies in the Kunene Region over the disputed building of a luxury lodge in an environmentally sensitive area.The situation is being aggravated by reports in
readAakokele ohaya mono oshindji
10-10-2005
A AKULUPE nenge tutye mboka haya mono oshikwiila shaakulupe ohaya mono omauwanawa ogendji ngoka ya pandula noonkondo, Ominista yUuthikepamwe nIinima yAanona Merlene Mungunda ta lombwele ngaaka
readOmaudhano gOombasikela mOvenduka
10-10-2005
OMATHIGATHANO gOombasikela gokomumvo kOvenduka, ga shilipalekwa ko The Namibian, ko Model Pick & Pay, kOmbaanga yOtango yOpashigwana , Ku Murray and Roberts, koCymot nokOradio, otaga ka kala ko
readNABTA a yamukula ketotepo ehangano lya BUTATA
10-10-2005
OMUPRESIDENDE gwEhangano lyAanuumbesa nUutekisa moNamibia (NABTA) Magnus Nangombe pamushangwa okwa ti NABTA, paudemokoli, okwa taambako etotepo lyEhangano epe lyOombesa nUutekisa lyedhina BUTATA
readTransNamib a nyanwa
10-10-2005
OONKALANONGO odha tukuka ishewe mu TransNamib konima sho ombapila yi na uuyelele wiilonga yopaumwene ya Menindjela moka ya tuminwa konyala omuniilonga kehe oshiwike sha zi ko.Mombapila ndjoka tayi
readKimi wins in Japan
10-10-2005
SUZUKA - Kimi Raikkonen produced a stunning performance to race through the field and secure his seventh win of the year in the Japanese Grand Prix yesterday.The Finn started from 17th on the grid
readCastillo knocks out Corrales
10-10-2005
LAS VEGAS - Jose Luis Castillo knocked out World Boxing Council and World Boxing Organisation champ Diego Corrales in a non-title lightweight fight here on Saturday.Referee Joe Cortez stopped the
readJunior tennis huge success at weekend
10-10-2005
THE weekend's Nashua Junior Masters tennis tournament was described as a huge success.The organisers invited eight players from each age group between 10 and 18 to participate.The youngsters played
readSports Shorts
10-10-2005
* SUZUKA - Japanese driver Takuma Sato was disqualified from his final Japanese Grand Prix for the BAR-Honda team here Sunday after being blamed for a collision with Italian Jarno Trulli.Sato came
readReporter Tjerije dies
10-10-2005
NAMIBIAN sports reporter Nelson Tjerije died in the Katutura State Hospital on Friday night.Tjerije was 35 and is survived by five siblings.Tjerije, known as 'Nelly' to his friends and colleagues,
readWind of change in African football
10-10-2005
JOHANNESBURG - Four African teams reached the World Cup finals for the first time on a dramatic last day of qualifiers around the continent as heavyweights Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal were all
readIAEA rewarded for failure, say critics
10-10-2005
PARIS - Green activists voiced anger on Friday after the UN's atom watchdog was awarded the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize, saying the agency had worsened the peril of global nuclear proliferation rather
readAtom agency scoops Nobel Peace Prize
10-10-2005
OSLO - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its Egyptian director general Mohamed ElBaradei won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their efforts to halt the spread of nuclear weapons,
readThousands support soccer star's candidacy for Liberian presidency
10-10-2005
MONROVIA - Tens of thousands of supporters of Liberian presidential hopeful George Weah brought Monrovia to a standstill on Saturday as the millionaire soccer star held a final campaign rally before
readIn Brief
10-10-2005
* BLOW - The campaign for Iraq's draft constitution suffered a blow when Sunni Arab groups urged voters in the October 15 referendum to reject the charter, which they warned would lead to the
readZim opposition hints at senate poll boycott
10-10-2005
HARARE - Zimbabwe's main opposition hinted on Saturday it might boycott polls to create a new upper house of parliament next month saying conditions in the country were not ripe for a free and fair
readSchroeder fights to stay German chancellor
10-10-2005
BERLIN - Gerhard Schroeder was fighting to keep alive his hopes of a third term as chancellor of Germany yesterday as he faced a showdown with his conservative challenger Angela Merkel.Three weeks
read1 400 buried in Guatemalan landslide
10-10-2005
PANABAJ - Rescuers choking on the smell of death dug for bodies in a black grunge of mud, rock and trees on Saturday where a Guatemalan village had stood until Hurricane Stan spawned a mudslide that
readSacked SA deputy president Zuma wants his day in court
10-10-2005
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's axed deputy president Jacob Zuma goes back to court this week, nearly four months after he was charged with corruption in a case that has shaken the leadership to its
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