Archive
24 Articles found on Monday, 26 June 2006
Bad governance fuels African migration
26-06-2006
'BEVERLY HILLS', Senegal - Young fishermen playing table football in the sand look up wistfully as another plane bound for Paris roars over their rubbish-strewn beach. Mothers dressed in bright
readTwo held for Jan Joubert murder
26-06-2006
POLICE have arrested two men in connection with the death of former Nature Conservation public relations officer, Jan Joubert, who was found murdered 50 kilometres from Tallismanus on Friday.Chief
readPriest pays a price for indecent assault
26-06-2006
AN elderly Roman Catholic priest who has been on trial in the Otjiwarongo Regional Court on three charges of raping young girls at Khorixas, as well as another count of indecent assault, was sentenced
readShebeen owners agree to go home
26-06-2006
PROTESTING shebeen owners, who have camped outside Parliament for more than a week because they oppose the Liquor Act, yesterday started packing their bags to return home. Their decision to leave
readKaribib on the skids
26-06-2006
AS Karibib prepares to celebrate its centenary this year, the town's services are teetering on the brink of collapse.The streets are in a state of severe disrepair, sewage lies in puddles along the
readNantu agrees to resume paying NUNW fees
26-06-2006
THE Namibia National Teachers' Union (Nantu) has reluctantly agreed to start paying its affiliation fees to the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW). Nantu informed Saturday's Central Executive
readMuseum phones cut
26-06-2006
TELEPHONES at the National Museum of Namibia (NMN) have been cut off because Government has not paid telephones bills there for two months.Staff at the NMN, which falls under the Ministry of
readNujoma lashes out at drunkards, shebeeners
26-06-2006
SWAPO President Sam Nujoma says Vision 2030 cannot be implemented by a nation of drunkards and people who promote drunkenness "like those demonstrating outside the Parliament building".Addressing
readClose to a million get their doses in the North
26-06-2006
NEARLY one million people were immunised against polio in the North during the mass polio immunisation campaign last week. "I am really very happy to announce that the campaign has gone on well to
readMass immunisation against polio successful, says Kamwi
26-06-2006
HEALTH Minister Dr Richard Kamwi says early indicators suggest that last week's first round of the mass polio immunisation campaign provided "excellent results". "Truly speaking, I am very happy
readNo bail for cocaine suspect
26-06-2006
THE bail application that alleged cocaine mule Bruno da Silva Paiva launched in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court last week has been refused. In a ruling given on Friday, Magistrate Sarel Jacobs
readSomali World Cup ban sparks protests
26-06-2006
MOGADISHU - Islamist militiamen shot in the air on Saturday to disperse hundreds of angry Somalis protesting against moves by sharia courts in Mogadishu to stop them watching the World Cup. Tearing
readIn Brief
26-06-2006
ANGER - Thousands of young supporters of Sudan's ruling party vented their anger at the United Nations and Washington in a protest against UN plans to deploy peacekeepers in the troubled region of
readKa futileni ko oongombe dheni kOkavango
26-06-2006
O MUKWANIILWA gwUukwangali muuninginino wOkavango Sitentu Mpasi, okwa ninga eyindilo lyomeendelelo kaanahambo ayehe yAawambo mboka ya kwatelwa oongombe dhawo omasiku ga zi ko sho dha li po aniwa
readOshigwana oshindji oshiituntilitha, Omundohotola Hamata ta ti
26-06-2006
O MUWILIKI gwUuhaku mOnooli, Omundohotola Naftali Hamata, okwa lombwela The Namibian mEtine kutya oshigwana oshindji mOnooli oshiituntilitha nawa okuza Etitatu lya zi ko sho oshikonga shetuntilo
readTeam Namibia struggle to register
26-06-2006
CLOSE to 190 members of Team Namibia set to compete at the Zone Six Youth Championships which starts today in the capital, had to find alternative accommodation on Friday after most of them could not
readFifa to decide on NFA squabbles in two weeks
26-06-2006
NAMIBIAN football will know within the next two week what Fifa has to say on the current power struggles within the association, a top Fifa official said yesterday. Fifa's Ashford Mamelodi told a
readIraq PM offers 'olive branch' to rebels
26-06-2006
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday unveiled to MPs a long-awaited national reconciliation plan aimed at quelling insurgent attacks and mounting sectarian violence. Under the
readCongo elections seen on track despite tensions
26-06-2006
BRAZZAVILLE - Preparations are on track for repeatedly delayed elections next month in Democratic Republic of Congo, the first free polls in over 40 years, one of the country's vice presidents said.
readZim information minister found dead
26-06-2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's Information Minister Tichaona Jokonya was found dead by aides on Saturday in a Harare hotel room, a senior official said. George Charamba, a government spokesman, said a state
readLiberia's truth commission probes atrocities
26-06-2006
MONROVIA - Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has opened its doors to start documenting evidence on wartime atrocities, its chairman said in a statement issued on Friday. "The TRC is
readSudan govt suspends all United Nations mission work in Darfur
26-06-2006
KHARTOUM - Sudan has suspended the work of a UN mission in its violent Darfur region after accusing the world body of transporting a rebel leader who opposes a recent peace deal, a Sudanese official
readAaron Spelling, prolific producer
26-06-2006
* LOS ANGELES - Prolific television producer Aaron Spelling, whose shows such as 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Dynasty' helped shape US prime-time television, died on Friday, days after suffering a
readFrederick Franck, artist, deeply spiritual man
26-06-2006
WARWICK, New York - Dutch-born Frederick Franck, whose art and writings reflected his deep interest in human spirituality, has died. He was 97. Franck died of congestive heart failure. Franck's
read