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38 Articles found on Thursday, 16 February 2006
Battered northern Uganda supports appeal for change
16-02-2006
COO PE CAMP, Uganda - Sitting in a camp for villagers forced from their homes by two decades of war in northern Uganda, 20-year-old Alfred Ojok says he won't be voting for President Yoweri Museveni
readKyoto 2012 goals still in reach: UN
16-02-2006
E OSLO - Industrialised nations can reach 2012 United Nations goals for reining in gases blamed for global warming but many will have to take tougher measures, the UN climate change bureau said on
readBrazil's president creates new forest reserves in Amazon
16-02-2006
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil has created two new national parks in the Amazon rain forest and expanded another to preserve an environmentally sensitive region next to where the government plans to pave a
readBirds can identify languages
16-02-2006
TOKYO - Pet birds can not only imitate sounds, they can distinguish between languages, potentially offering new clues on how the brain recognises speech, Japanese researchers say.It has already been
readWTO meeting much ado about nothing?
16-02-2006
THE recent World Trade Organisation (WTO) Hong Kong ministerial meeting was a lost opportunity which did not manage to advance the poor countries' cause on the international trade arena, but as
readMTC to expand its coverage
16-02-2006
NAMIBIA'S sole cellular network operator, Mobile Telecommunications (MTC) has signed a five-year exclusive contract with leading global communications company Motorola Limited for the supply of
readSouth African budget promises faster growth
16-02-2006
CAPE TOWN - Treasury Minister Trevor Manuel yesterday announced an annual budget of R473 billion, with emphasis on individual tax cuts and measures to spread the benefits of South Africa's sustained
readTanzania to cut SAA links - paper
16-02-2006
DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzania plans to sever links between its national carrier and South African Airways (SAA), a local daily yesterday quoted the infrastructure minister as saying.The South African
readSkilling urged execs to bluff
16-02-2006
HOUSTON - Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling ordered subordinates to mislead Wall Street about the company's earnings, a former top executive testified on Tuesday.The testimony by Kenneth Rice, a
readFiery Valentine's Day at Rundu
16-02-2006
RUNDU - The Police are investigating an incident of attempted murder after a woman allegedly set a car belonging to her former lover on fire while he was driving.According to the Police, the incident
readAccused in second treason trial want the Judge replaced
16-02-2006
THE Judge who is set to preside over the second Caprivi high treason trial is going to be asked to recuse himself from the case.Delays preventing the start of the trial continued to dog it this
readParastatals fight for their rights
16-02-2006
STATE-OWNED enterprises yesterday said a Government plan to control public funds invested by parastatals is unrealistic, unworkable and impractical.Parastatals - presenting their views on a proposed
readBerndt lawyer alleges 'jungle justice'
16-02-2006
THE long-awaited document from Interpol that concluded the investigation into claims of sodomy against Guenter Berndt made no difference yesterday to Magistrate Gibson Imbili's decision to deny bail
readNew date set for arson-murder verdict
16-02-2006
FORMER teacher Efraim Rachimo Haradoëb was seen at Keetmanshoop and Karasburg on the day that he allegedly murdered his teacher girlfriend at Gibeon by setting her on fire more than seven years ago,
readUN to inject N$1b to fight disease, poverty
16-02-2006
THE United Nations and the Government of Namibia yesterday signed an agreement under which the world body will pump more than N$1 billion into Namibia's fight against HIV and poverty.The US$168,96
readCaveman epic to be filmed partly in the Namib Desert
16-02-2006
THOUSANDS of aspiring actors flocked to casting sessions at the coast this week, hoping to get a part in the Hollywood movie '10 000 BC', which will be partly filmed in the Namib Desert.The
readPresident visits Kavango Region
16-02-2006
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba is touring the Kavango Region to visit agricultural projects.A source in the Kavango Governor's office told The Namibian that the President has told them he wants to
readChecking up on crops in North
16-02-2006
FOLLOWING good rains countrywide, a crop-assessment team has been sent to the north-eastern and northern regions to see how communal mahangu farmers are doing with their fields.Jennifer Moetie, Chief
readSeven men up for robbery
16-02-2006
GOBABIS - Seven men appeared before Magistrate Johannes Shuuveni on a charge of robbery here on Tuesday.Shuuveni postponed their case to 24 March 2006 for the Prosecutor General's decision whether
readOshakati man slits his own throat
16-02-2006
OSHAKATI - A 31-year-old resident of the Oshoopala informal settlement in Oshakati is fighting for his life in the Oshakati Hospital after slitting open his throat with a knife in an attempted
readArmed forces to tackle impact of HIV-AIDS
16-02-2006
WINDHOEK - The impact of AIDS on the military has been a topic African armed forces have preferred to keep under wraps, concerned with issues of national security.But in a step towards greater
readOmupresidende e egulula Oparlaimende
16-02-2006
A ATOTI yooveta oye na ookweeta po ooveta dhi na sha nokunawapeka uuhupilo wAanamibia, tadhi eta po oompito dhiilonga nokushunitha pevi oluhepo.Shika osha popiwa kOmupresidende Hifikepunye Pohamba
readOkunwa, kwaalandula oveta kwa futitha oyendji
16-02-2006
O KUNWINA pohala inaga pitikwa nosho wo okuhinga nuuhasha okwa futitha Aavenduka oshimaliwa shi thike lwopomiliyuna pethimbo lyefudho lyOkrismes nOmumvo Omupe.Opolisi ya Namibia pamwe nOpolisi ya
readYaali medhita lyoshipotha sha Owases
16-02-2006
O POLISI oya lopota ngeyi kutya oya dhitike aalumentu yaali shi na sha noshipotha shoka sha li sha tilitha aantu polukanda lwa Tamariskia poSwakopmund omumvo gwa zi ko.Oshipotha shika osha li
readOmulumentu a lopotelwa ekwatonkonga nedhipago lyokanona koomvula mbali
16-02-2006
O MULUMENTU gumwe gwoomvula 30 gwopofaalama yimwe yi li momundhingoloko gwa Shaanda, okwa holoka mOmpngu ya Mengestrata mondoolopa ndjika mOmaandaha - a lopotelwa ekwatonkonga nedhipago lyokanona
readYe vulithe po 50 000 ya thiga po omagumbo gawo
16-02-2006
K IGALI - Konyala aakwashigwana ye vulithe po 50 000 oya fadhuka po omagumbo gawo muuzilo wOrepublika yUudemokoli ya Congo (DRC) ya tila iita mbyoka ya tukuka pokati komatanga gEpangelo nOorebele
readWomen's football trials at Khorixas
16-02-2006
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) will host the second of a series of trials for the under-19 women's national team at Khorixas on Saturday.Namibia is preparing for an under-19 tournament in
readLocal Sport Ali blasts his way to 15th victory
16-02-2006
NAMIBIAN boxing export Paulus 'Ali' Nuumbembe blasted his way to a 15th victory in Manchester, United Kingdom on Sunday against Segey Starkov from Serbia.He won the fight on points after eight
readZodwa Khoza dies
16-02-2006
The brand manager of South Africa's Orlando Pirates Football Club, Zodwa Khoza, died at the Louis Pasteur hospital in Pretoria of what doctors described as multiple organ failure on Monday.At the
readBA calls on netballers
16-02-2006
BLACK Africa Netball Club will start its training programme for the new season on Monday (February 20) at the Immanuel Shifidi Senior Secondary School in Katutura.Training starts at 18h00. New
readCoaches call for more training
16-02-2006
ABOUT 66 coaches in the Kavango Region who participated in the Namibia Football Association's coaching course last year have called for more training.NFA regional co-ordinator Rudolph 'Shaya' Mupiri
readTigers coach Akan leaves
16-02-2006
TIGERS coach Ali Akan yesterday confirmed his resignation from Tigers, claiming that he did not receive enough support from the executive committee, while the club has also failed to pay him for
readDemocrats blast Cheney secrecy after shooting
16-02-2006
WASHINGTON - Democrats in Congress on Tuesday accused Vice President Dick Cheney of a pattern of secrecy, and demanded that he "level" with the public, after keeping mum about accidentally shooting
readFraud claims delay Haiti vote outcome
16-02-2006
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Eight days after the international community hailed Haiti's election, the painfully slow vote count was bogged down yesterday by claims of fraud, protests and delays.And Haitians
readZim court scraps opposition challenge to Mugabe victory
16-02-2006
HARARE - A Zimbabwe supreme court judge has stopped opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's bid to scrap President Robert Mugabe's 2002 election victory, saying he found "no merits" in the long-running
readBird flu spreads to Germany, Austria, Iran
16-02-2006
BERLIN - Three more countries said yesterday they had detected cases of deadly bird flu in wild swans, with Germany, Iran and Austria the latest to find the virus that has killed 91 people
readIn Brief
16-02-2006
* BOMB BLAST - A homemade bomb blast killed three boys on their way to school Wednesday in Baghdad, police said.At least four other people died in violence across the Iraqi capital. The bombing took
readEU states back call for Congo support force
16-02-2006
BRUSSELS - European countries have agreed to respond to a UN call to help its peacekeepers in Congo during forthcoming elections, charging military planners to work out how troops could be best
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