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34 Articles found on Thursday, 6 April 2006
Desperate Somalis pray rains will ease food crisis
06-04-2006
BURDHUHUNLE - Ahmed Abdoulaye's two brothers were killed in an argument over water at a well a few months ago and the 15-year-old Somali was terrified the same fate would befall him.He knows how easy
readCaprivi farmers use chilli peppers to deter hungry elephants
06-04-2006
KONGOLA - Conservancies and farmers in the Caprivi Region are testing a powerful, non-lethal weapon against marauding elephants that destroy crops.The humble chilli pepper - used in the manufacture
readEnvironmental films attract thousands
06-04-2006
WASHINGTON - One thing can be said about the Environmental Film Festival: it's not Cannes or Sundance.It may not even be Missoula. But it is part of a US trend to feature movies about nature and the
readDe Beers finalises BEE deal
06-04-2006
JOHANNESBURG - Diamond giant De Beers has finalised its deal to sell 26 per cent of its South African unit to a new black-owned firm and has trimmed the price, it said yesterday.The price of selling
readZimbabwe imposes price controls
06-04-2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe has imposed price controls on several essential commodities and services in a bid to control runaway inflation, but analysts say this will have little impact on an economy already
readIMF forum urged to address economic imbalances
06-04-2006
BOSTON - International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato on Tuesday proposed a multilateral forum where developing and industrialised nations can address ways to rebalance the global economy, although
readOil spill reported in restive Ogoniland
06-04-2006
LAGOS - A minority rights group fighting environmental pollution in Nigeria's delta region yesterday reported an oil spill from a damaged pipeline owned by Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell.Community
readZambezi floodwater surrounds villages
06-04-2006
THE Zambezi River has surpassed the five-metre mark at Katima Mulilo and surrounding villages in the eastern floodplains of the Kabbe constituency.Yesterday, Kabbe councillor Peter Mwala said
readContract killing connection in farm massacre grows stronger
06-04-2006
THE Kareeboomkolk farm massacre of eight people in March last year was the result of a contract killing initiated by the son of two of the murder victims, the Prosecutor General is charging.Justus
readItchy and scratchy at Omhanda school
06-04-2006
CHILDREN at the Omhanda Combined School near Eenhana, in the Ohangwena Region, seem to have become allergic to schoolwork.More than 100 pupils - and three of their teachers - have been itching and
readCity keeps lips buttoned over suspension of its traffic chief
06-04-2006
THE City of Windhoek will not be revealing the charges facing suspended City Traffic Head Eliphas !Owos-Oab until internal investigations have been concluded, City CEO Niilo Taapopi said
readAnother TransNamib labour case postponed
06-04-2006
A LACK of magistrates for criminal cases in the Katutura courts yesterday resulted in the postponement of another labour case in which a former manager is suing transport parastatal
readE-fuel fraud claims burst open in court
06-04-2006
CHARGES that a director of a company that was contracted to install electronic vehicle-identification systems in Government cars has been committing fraud to the tune of hundreds of thousands of
readTight security as paparazzi descend on Angelina, Brad
06-04-2006
THE arrival of Hollywood celebrity couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Namibia has sparked a media frenzy.International paparazzi have started arriving in the country in a quest to snatch a
readMariental shebeens shut after stabbing spree
06-04-2006
THE Mariental municipality has closed most of the shebeens in the town following a number of stabbing incidents there over the weekend.Although hospital staff declined to comment on the seriousness
readGovt told it needs to tighten its belt
06-04-2006
GOVERNMENT needs to save money in its own departments to have more money available to help emerging farmers, train teachers and nurses and pay pensioners better, the Republican Party says.In his
read2 murders in North
06-04-2006
A FARMER from the Oshekedhiya farming area in the Oshana Region was murdered on Sunday night.Constable Jonas Matheus of the Oshakati Police told The Namibian that Gebhard Naftali Shinyemba (44) was
readPM believes the Budget strikes a good balance
06-04-2006
PRIME Minister Nahas Angula maintains that the proposed National Budget for 2006-07 strikes a good balance between meeting the competing demands of welfare, social services and economic growth.Angula
readOshipotha sha Kandara mOmpangu yOpombanda pehulilo lya Apilili
06-04-2006
O MPANGU yOpombanda ndjoka oyo yi na okutokola ngele omapulapulo moshipotha sha nakusa Lazarus Kandara naga tsikile tuu nokupulakenwa ku Mengestrata ngoka e ga tameke otayi ka gandja owala etokolo
readAadhani yoongonyo mboka ya yi le koCommonwealth otaya nyenyetelwa
06-04-2006
O SHEENDO shAanamibia mboka ya li ya ka kutha ombinga mUudhano mboka hau ithanwa Commonwealth Games osha galukile kegumbo kohi yomapopyo guufuthi neindilo lyiimaliwa otayi popilwa yamwe
readYaali ya tsuwa okusa
06-04-2006
A ANTU yaali oya tsuwa nombele okusa pokandingosho kamwe pOmalinda mehuliloshiwike lya zi ko. Lwopotundi onti 22h50 mEtitano lya zi ko, omulumantu gwomimvo 32 Paul Jacobs okwa tsuwa mothingo po
readOmaulikilo gOpaipindi mOndangwa
06-04-2006
O MUNASHIPUNDI gwEhangano lyAanangeshefa mOnooli, Phillip Amwele okwa tseyitha kutya okuza meti 26 sigo 31 gaApilili 2006, mOndangwa otamu ka kala Omaulikilo gOpaipindi omanene moka aanangeshefa
readHansa Cup goes to the wire
06-04-2006
THE Hansa Pilsener Cup goes to the wire this weekend when minnows Tough Guys faces former premiership side Golden Bees in what could be a tantalising affair for Otjiwarongo spectators at the Mokati
readPistol king aims for Olympics
06-04-2006
NEW DELHI - India's Commonwealth Games hero Samaresh Jung hopes to qualify for the 2008 Beijing Olympics with a borrowed pistol due to his country's strict policy for importing shooting
readEls and Goosen eye green jacket
06-04-2006
AUGUSTA - After combining for three runner-up finishes in the last six years, Retief Goosen and Ernie Els believe conditions may finally be right for another South African champion at the US
readLate goals save AC Milan but Inter depart
06-04-2006
LONDON - AC Milan sneaked through to the Champions League semi-finals with two late strikes on Tuesday but city rivals Inter were eliminated on the away goals rule.Six-times former European champions
readIn Brief
06-04-2006
* VOLCANO ERUPTS - Tanzania's only active volcano, Oldonyo le Ngai, has erupted, spewing smoke and ash into the country's northern skies and causing brief panic among residents.* DIPLOMAT BARRED -
readCourt battles to find home for Taylor
06-04-2006
UNITED NATIONS - The UN-backed court that would prosecute former Liberian President Charles Taylor has run into trouble trying to persuade any government to either imprison him or give him asylum
readSaddam slams Interior Ministry
06-04-2006
BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein returned to court yesterday and immediately accused the Interior Ministry of killing and torturing thousands of Iraqis, remarks likely to inflame sectarian tensions.The
readLandmines kill 1 800 in DRC in three years
06-04-2006
KINSHASA - Landmines laid in the Democratic Republic of Congo's five-year civil war have killed almost 1 800 people since the end of the conflict, the United Nations anti-landmine centre in DRC said
readZuma says he took shower to reduce risk of HIV
06-04-2006
JOHANNESBURG - Former South African deputy president Jacob Zuma took a shower straight after sex with his HIV-positive rape accuser as a way of reducing his chances of contracting the virus, the
readIraq PM resists calls for him to step down
06-04-2006
BAGHDAD - Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari remained defiant yesterday after calls from a vice president for him to step down to break weeks of deadlock on the formation of a new
readGarang death blamed on pilot
06-04-2006
KHARTOUM - An official probe into the helicopter crash that killed former south Sudanese leader John Garang last year concluded the pilot was to blame, a member of the investigation panel said
readStig Wennerstrom, Swedish Soviet spy
06-04-2006
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Soviet spy Stig Wennerstrom, a Swedish air force officer who supplied Moscow with military secrets for 15 years in Sweden's biggest Cold War espionage scandal, has died.He was 99.
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