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39 Articles found on Monday, 31 October 2005
Base metals ride Asia's economic boom
31-10-2005
SINGAPORE - Sizzling economic growth in China and India will lift Asia's appetite for base metals next year, but a rise in the flow of supplies may take the edge off record high prices, analysts
readBid to keep global trade talks alive
31-10-2005
BRUSSELS - European trade negotiators launched an attempt on Friday to keep global trade talks alive by making a new offer on the sensitive issue of farming, with the threat of a French veto ringing
readKenya Airways half-year profits rise
31-10-2005
NAIROBI - Kenya Airways posted a rise in profits for the first half of its financial year, but warned on Friday that high oil prices and competition could depress profits in the second half.The
readSlowing world trade set to grow 7%
31-10-2005
GENEVA - World Trade Organisation (WTO) economists predicted yesterday that global goods trade growth would pick up to seven per cent year on year in 2006 against an expected 6,5 per cent for 2005.In
readUganda agrees 'no more IMF cash'
31-10-2005
KAMPALA - Uganda has agreed it no longer needs IMF financing, having seen high and sustained growth since the early 1990s, an International Monetary Fund official said on Friday.An IMF team visited
readUganda agrees 'no more IMF cash'
31-10-2005
KAMPALA - Uganda has agreed it no longer needs IMF financing, having seen high and sustained growth since the early 1990s, an International Monetary Fund official said on Friday.An IMF team visited
readSA cuts petrol price; no local relief
31-10-2005
SOUTH Africa's retail petrol prices are set to fall by 31 cents a litre because of lower global petroleum prices, the South African government said on Friday. The price of petrol is to be reduced
readCompion in hasty departure from AirNam
31-10-2005
ANDRE Compion left Air Namibia on Thursday - three months before he was scheduled to vacate his office as the airline's General Manager for Operations and Technical Services.Compion resigned three
readNew twist in Avid-SSC case
31-10-2005
DESPITE a High Court inquiry that encompassed almost three weeks of court proceedings, over 4 000 typewritten pages of testimony and more than 20 witnesses, the Avid-Social Security Commission case
read12-year-old in court without lawyer
31-10-2005
GOBABIS - A 12-year-old boy appeared in the Gobabis Magistrate's Court on Friday on a charge of theft.The boy allegedly stole goods valued at N$400 from a stall at the town market on July 11. Some of
readSwakop plots sell like hotcakes
31-10-2005
MORE than 260 potential buyers from across Namibia registered to bid at an auction of 150 reserved plots that took place in Swakopmund on Friday.The auction was open to first-time property owners
readNavy speedboats sink at Walvis
31-10-2005
TWO motorboats of the Namibian Navy sank in the naval base in Walvis Bay last week.The two powerboats known as Namacuras, used for general patrol purposes in and around the harbour, were tied to each
readGermany urged to find solution to 'unfinished business of colonial rule'
31-10-2005
GIBEON - The speaker of the National Assembly, Theo-Ben Gurirab, on Saturday called on Germany to find a lasting solution to "the unfinished business of German colonial rule in Namibia"."I encourage
readKoch's appeal against extradition postponed
31-10-2005
GERMAN fraud suspect Hans Juergen Koch appears set to spend his fourth successive Christmas in prison, after the hearing of his appeal against a High Court judgement that confirmed an extradition
readTeen pregnancy dilemma
31-10-2005
WINDHOEK - Ndjianje Tjiraure (16) always excelled as a student at A Shipena High School in Katutura.But her hopes of becoming an engineer were dashed when she fell pregnant and gave birth to a boy
readJet fuel crisis in Namibia
31-10-2005
NAMIBIA ran out of jet fuel for more than 48 hours last week after a trainload of Jet A-1 fuel, supplied by Sasol via Namibia Liquid Fuel, became unfit for use.Andre Compion, at that time still Air
readArmed hold-up at coastal coffee bar
31-10-2005
THREE armed robbers held up a coffee bar at Luederitz on Saturday night and stole N$10 000 in cash.The Police reported yesterday that the three entered Ray Coffee Bar in Bahnhof Street at around
readCooling showers fall across country
31-10-2005
RAIN was reported at several places across Namibia at the weekend.Isolated thundershowers could still be expected in the interior today but it would be hot, weatherman Victor Kaurimuje said
readRuling on Josea's bail bid tomorrow
31-10-2005
NICO Josea will hear tomorrow whether he will regain the freedom that he lost when he was arrested three months ago on charges that he had committed fraud and theft through his role in a botched
readGrazing crisis in the North persists
31-10-2005
FARMERS who have been evicted from the western Kavango will ask Government to remove fences in the eastern part of the former Owambo so that their cattle can graze there."We are willing to go out,
readOmadhina gaawiliki yOkomisi yOkoraputo ga tseyithwa
31-10-2005
MENGESTRATA Paulus Noa, ngoka e li Mengestrata mOshakati, okwa ningwa omutse gwOkomisi yOkoraputo ya Namibi/Anti-Corruption Commission.Omadhina gaawiliki yOkomisi ndjika oga tseyithwa kOmuprima
readKauandenge a ninga omuhikingalo
31-10-2005
AGEYITHWA nokuuvithwa nayi kopolotika, Joseph Kauandenge okwa tokola okukonga uuhupilo wulwe mokuhika oomusika.Kauandenge ngoka a kala omunapolitika okwa ekelehi onguwo yuunapolotika nokwiizaleka
readKashala a pewa oomvula 21 mokakuma
31-10-2005
" OSHI LI sha yela kutya ngoye ou li lela oshiponga kaakiintu nokoshigwana."Shika osho sha lombwelwa omulumentu gwoomvula 34 Immanuel Kashala, kOmupangulipresidende Petrus Damaseb mOmpangu yOpombanda
readOshinima sha Kapia sha tokolwa pwapwa
31-10-2005
OMANANATHANO ngoka ga kala mongundu yoSwapo kombinga ya ngele Kapia na thige po tuu Oparliamende nenge aawe, oga hulu sho kwa ningwa etokolo ndyoka lya hololwa puuyelele mEtine lyoshiwike sha zi
readOmakonakono meyako lyoombapila dha Unisa gandopa
31-10-2005
OYUNIVESITI ya Namibia (Unam) oya tseyitha kutya omakonakono ngoka ga ningwa po meyako "lyomafulaye" gatano gomakonakono gOyunivesiti ya South Afrika (Unisa) inaga eta po sha tashi vulu okukuthitha
readChaos at cricket match
31-10-2005
ANGRY confrontations and accusations of racism scarred the final day of Bermuda's Namibia cricket tour on Friday as coach Gus Logie pulled his players from the field in the face of intimidating
readChelsea thump Rovers, United mauled by Boro
31-10-2005
LONDON - Chelsea finished a stuttering week on a high note when they beat Blackburn Rovers 4-2 at Stamford Bridge to maintain a commanding lead at the top of the English Premiership on Saturday.But
readHumphries Security Cup
31-10-2005
Results Played Saturday, Oct 29 Oshakati City 0-1 Orlando Pirates Tigers 0-1 African Stars Chief Santos 5 (1-1) 4 Ramblers Blue Waters 10-2 Touch & Go Black Africa 3-0 Civics SKW 1-3 Eleven
readAward 'rejuvenates' Agnes
31-10-2005
NAMIBIA'S middle-distance ace Agnes Samaria says she feels more rejuvenated and confident about her career after she scooped the sportswoman of the year award on Friday night.Samaria bagged the award
readBush administration faces credibility blow
31-10-2005
WASHINGTON - The White House faces a damaging loss of credibility after the indictment of I Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's right-hand man, for lying to investigators in a CIA
readIn Brief
31-10-2005
* NUCLEAR - Iran will not return to a full freeze of its disputed nuclear fuel activities and rejects Western demands for such confidence-building measures, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.* HUNT -
readIran backtracks over Israel
31-10-2005
TEHRAN - Iran on Saturday retreated from remarks by its president that Israel should be "wiped off the map", saying it stood by its UN commitments and would not use violence against another country.A
readScuffles break out as Zanzibar votes
31-10-2005
ZANZIBAR - Sporadic violence erupted at polling stations on Tanzania's volatile Zanzibar archipelago yesterday as voters cast ballots in hotly contested elections amid tight security, fears of unrest
readYouths clash with police in Paris
31-10-2005
PARIS - Gangs of youths lobbed stones at police and set cars ablaze in a northeastern suburb of Paris in a third night of riots, officials said yesterday.The youths set afire some 20 cars and threw
readPilgrims trampled in Mecca
31-10-2005
RIYADH - Two gunmen shot and killed a policeman patrolling in the Islamic holy city of Mecca overnight, witnesses said yesterday, while seven pilgrims were trampled to death in a rush to receive
readHurricane Beta lashes Nicaragua
31-10-2005
PUERTO CABEZAS - Hurricane Beta strengthened to a dangerous Category 3 early yesterday as it battered Nicaragua's Caribbean coast, where troops tried to rush thousands of people into shelters to
readRiots over Kenya constitution
31-10-2005
KISUMU - Heavily-armed security forces battled hundreds of rioting youths in western Kenya yesterday as the death toll from weekend clashes over the country's proposed constitution climbed to four,
read25 dead as bomb rips through Iraqi market
31-10-2005
BAQUBA - A bomb hidden in a truck packed with dates killed at least 25 in a Shi'ite village market north of Baghdad on Saturday, in what appeared to be the latest bid by Sunni extremists to spark a
readNew Delhi 'terrorist' attacks kill 61
31-10-2005
NEW DELHI - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan led international condemnation yesterday against "terrorist" bombings which claimed at least 61 lives in the Indian capital New Delhi."The secretary
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