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38 Articles found on Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Air Botswana up for grabs
15-08-2006
GABORONE - Botswana's government has met with five companies that have expressed interest in bidding for the southern African country's national airline, Air Botswana, the government said
readAfrican Central Bank governors meet in Windhoek
15-08-2006
CENTRAL bank heads from across the continent have converged in Windhoek to attend the Assembly of African Central Bank Governors (AACB) conference taking place this week.The conference, being hosted
readWomen set to dominate millionaires' club
15-08-2006
LONDON - Women millionaires will outnumber their male counterparts within 15 years as the total number of mega-rich quadruples, according to research yesterday.Bigger divorce settlements, rising house
readUnited States beef facilities under scrutiny
15-08-2006
SEOUL - South Korea will send a team of experts to scrutinise US meat-processing facilities before deciding whether or not to lift a three-year ban on US beef imports, officials said yesterday."They
readSA new phone firm says launch imminent
15-08-2006
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's second national fixed-line phone operator (SNO) plans to launch at the end of this month, providing competition for state-controlled Telkom. "The SNO is on track to
readSudan to ship 400 000 barrels of new crude
15-08-2006
KUALA LUMPUR - Sudan will export its first crude cargo from the 40 000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Thar Jath oilfield, totalling 400 000 barrels from end-August, an industry source said yesterday.The African
readOil drops
15-08-2006
LONDON - Oil fell to US$73 a barrel yesterday as a truce took effect to end fighting between Israel and Hizbollah, easing concern about supply from a region that pumps a third of the world's
readNorthland City sold off Corruption charges 'to be cancelled'
15-08-2006
THE beleaguered Northland City Project - planned to be Namibia's largest business and entertainment centre - at Helao Nafidi, formerly known as Oshikango, has been sold for over N$5 million to a group
readTriplets born at Oshakati
15-08-2006
CECILIA Paulus (29) from Omaadi village near Ohaingu in the Ohangwena Region has given birth to triplets - two boys and a girl.The Oshakati State Hospital's Sister Laimi Nashidengo said the mother
readUK flight warning lifted
15-08-2006
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday withdrew its three-day-old advisory notice in which it had cautioned travellers planning to use Namibia's only direct air link with the United Kingdom to try
readKaras abattoir in fight for survival
15-08-2006
THE Karas Abattoir and Tannery (KAT) is bracing for a financial loss for the 2006-2007 financial year - despite slashing jobs this month as part of a bid to stay afloat.According to financial figures
readRundu pet rescue centre runs on care and little else
15-08-2006
HOW much is a dog's life worth? If it's a purebred, and living in a well-off area of our country, chances are that it's worth a lot: but if it's a stray mutt roaming the streets of Rundu looking for
read16 pregnant girls back in class
15-08-2006
KATIMA MULILO - Sixteen pregnant girls from the Caprivi Senior Secondary School are back in class after the school board encouraged them to come back and to write their final exams. The Regional
readPoor participation in HIV-AIDS fight
15-08-2006
KATIMA MULILO - In a town battling with the highest percentage of HIV-AIDS infections in the country, the launch of a national video campaign on the epidemic on Friday was attended by only 150 people,
readWar vets' blessing denied
15-08-2006
WINDHOEK - The Swapo Party Elders Council has distanced itself from remarks by the war veterans committee that the Swapo wing had given its blessing to the committee's resolutions. A statement by
readElephant kills man in Caprivi
15-08-2006
A ZAMBIAN national was trampled to death by an elephant in Caprivi on Thursday morning, the Namibian Police reported yesterday.Ikabongo Mwiko died at Pass Me Not Village in the Lusese area. *
readBail application by ex-MP Mwilima continues today
15-08-2006
FORMER National Assembly member Geoffrey Mwilima and one of his co-accused in the main Caprivi high treason trial, former Namibian Broadcasting Corporation producer Barnard Mucheka, are set to return
readNakale back on the job at RA
15-08-2006
THE Roads Authority (RA) has confirmed the reinstatement of one of its senior managers, Rosa Nakale, who was axed in 2004 following a Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the company's affairs.RA
readWe want our land back: Hereros
15-08-2006
THE Herero people are demanding the return of land they lost during the German colonial era, the Paramount Chief of the Ovaherero, Kuaima Riruako, said at the weekend.Herero communities also have to
readaPata Huberrt a fumnvikwa kengathithi poDobra
15-08-2006
O MUHONGI gwOngeleka ya Katoolika ka Roma moNamibia, Pata Hubert Anton Sheetekela Knuf, ngoka a li Omukuluntu gwOshikandjongeleka shOngeleka ya Katoolika sha Katana nokwa manene oondjenda dhe ongulohi
readAanamibia ya gunwa kaaya longithe nando uupale woondhila wa Britain
15-08-2006
O MATILITHO gopaukulo ngoka ga ningilwa okapale koondhila ka Britain lwopehulilo lyoshiwike sha zi ko otashi vulika ga gume omatuko goondhila mu Namibia.Otaku hokololwa ngeyi kutya oshinima shika osha
readRamatex okwa hala okupatulula epandja epe
15-08-2006
O KAMPANI yokuhondja oonguwo ya Ramatex oya hala aniwa okuyambulapo iilonga yayo, okugandja omadheulo kaaniilonga yayo nosho wo okwiiyutha koveta yi na sha negameno lyuuntshitwe, Omuprimaminista Nahas
readOmudhimba gwi itsuwa momulonga gwa Orange
15-08-2006
OPOLISI moshitopolwa sha Karas oyi itsu omudhimba gwomulumentu momulonga gwa Orange, taku fekelwa kutya okwa si omeya momulonga nguka.Komanda gwOpolisi moshitopolwa shika Josephat Abel okwa ti otaku
readKaudimomunhu a pewa oomvula 15 sho a dhipago omuholike gwe
15-08-2006
O MUSAMANE gwomomukunda Onhumba popepi nOkongo mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena gwedhina Samwel Kaudimomunhu gwoomvula omilongontano (50) ngashiingeyi, ngoka a kwatelwe po meti 27 November 2003
readKabila oku li komeho miizemo yomomahogololo ga zi ko
15-08-2006
K INSHASA - Orepublika yUundemokoli ya Congo (DRC) otayi ka uva kutya olye a sindana momahogololo gOpaupresidended ngoka ga ningwa moshilongo shika omasiku ga zi ko, ihe Omupresidende Joseph Kabila
readPilot error caused Hansie's death
15-08-2006
CAPE TOWN - A South African judge yesterday ruled that pilot negligence led to a 2002 plane crash which killed fallen cricketing icon Hansie Cronje, whose career ended after a match-fixing scandal.
readKlitschko eyes Maskaev
15-08-2006
LAS VEGAS - New World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev has been pitched a unification showdown with rival ring king Wladimir Klitschko as a new era dawns for the struggling
readSteve offers hope to Becks
15-08-2006
LONDON - England manager Steve McClaren insisted on Sunday David Beckham could still play his way back on to the international stage.Beckham's England career appeared to have reached its journey's
readNo McCarthy for Bafana
15-08-2006
BRAVE Warriors goalkeepers Athiel Mbaha, Esau Tjiuoro and Zico Paulus can count themselves lucky that they won't have to stop shots from South Africa's merciless striker Benni McCarthy, who will not
readNamibian footballers flock to SA
15-08-2006
FIVE Namibians will turn out for South African-based side Black Leopards in the next season after all of them secured two-year renewable contracts ahead of the Premier Soccer League (PSL), which
readSri Lanka tri-series opener washed out
15-08-2006
COLOMBO - Bad weather washed out the opening match of the limited-overs tri-series between South Africa and Sri Lanka here yesterday.The match will be played on Tuesday, weather permitting, as a
readFragile truce begins in Lebanon
15-08-2006
BEIRUT - Heavy fighting in southern Lebanon stopped abruptly yesterday after a UN-brokered truce came into effect, but reports that Israeli troops killed a Hezbollah guerrilla underlined the fragility
readUK's latest cabin baggage rules for passengers
15-08-2006
LONDON - Britain has eased a ban on airline cabin baggage imposed last week after police said they had foiled a plot to blow up airliners. Following the Joint Terrorist Analysis Centre's decision to
readAIDS scientists kick off conference
15-08-2006
TORONTO - Microsoft Chief Bill Gates, who contributed millions of dollars to fight AIDS, has said that the search for a vaccine to prevent the deadly disease would be his foundation's top priority.He
readBlast rocks Sri Lanka capital
15-08-2006
COLOMBO - Tamil Tigers killed seven people and injured 17 in an attack on a Pakistan embassy convoy yesterday, just hours after a suspected rebel front threatened to start bombing civilians in the
readChina's typhoon death toll hits 214
15-08-2006
BEIJING - China's death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose yesterday to at least 214 after scores of bodies were pulled from the sea as the army mobilised to repair roads and water supplies following the
readProsecutors respond to Zuma case
15-08-2006
JOHANNESBURG - South African prosecutors were due to respond formally yesterday to former Deputy President Jacob Zuma's request that his politically sensitive corruption case be dropped.The state,
readBaghdad bombers slaughter 57
15-08-2006
BAGHDAD - Insurgents slaughtered at least 57 people in a bomb and missile attack on a busy Baghdad neighbourhood, officials said yesterday, while Iraq's embattled government faced the political
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