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42 Articles found on Monday, 20 March 2006
As drought bites, Kenyan tribes fight over water
20-03-2006
OROPOYI - Akiru Lomukuny's clan has already seen one boy killed, a girl raped and dozens of women beaten just for trying to get a drink of water.Now, she says, things are about to get a lot worse.
readUganda to reduce water flow from Lake Victoria
20-03-2006
KAMPALA - Uganda is gradually reducing the amount of water drawn from Lake Victoria in an effort to restore dwindling levels on Africa's largest fresh water body, officials said last week.Environment
readSasol BEE plans pick up
20-03-2006
CAPE TOWN - Sasol Mining's black economic empowerment (BEE) ownership component will reach about 20 per cent by 2009 and full compliance with the Mining Charter by 2014, the company said on
readL'Oreal buys Body Shop
20-03-2006
PARIS - French cosmetics giant L'Oreal said on Friday it would buy Body Shop International, renowned for its ethical hair and skin products, for US$1,143 billion (£652 million).L'Oreal will pay 300
readGeneral Motors to record US$2 billion loss in 2005
20-03-2006
DETROIT - General Motors Corp. will see a larger loss of US$2 billion for 2005 as the world's largest auto maker gets a truer picture of the costs of bailing out its former parts-making unit and
readMittal Steel faces SA court on alleged overpricing
20-03-2006
JOHANNESBURG - A South African tribunal is hearing a case against the biggest steel producer in Africa, Mittal Steel, following complaints of overpricing by two gold mining companies.The Competition
readTransnet delays Metrorail sale
20-03-2006
JOHANNESBURG - Unions confirmed on Friday that Transnet's sale of Metrorail has been delayed by a month, averting a threatened four-day nationwide strike next week by workers."It's definitely been
readChina could become leading gold producer
20-03-2006
JOHANNESBURG - China's annual gold output is currently increasing at a rate of 5 per cent a year, and by 2009 the country could surpass South Africa or Australia as the world's number one gold miner,
readPrudential rejects takeover bid
20-03-2006
LONDON - Prudential Plc, Britain's second- biggest insurer, said it rejected a takeover approach from larger competitor Aviva Plc because the bid wasn't in the interests of shareholders.Prudential's
readPolice arrest panga attack suspect
20-03-2006
A MAN who allegedly hacked his mother with a panga at Ehafo village in the Oshana Region, northern Namibia, is now in Police custody.Oshana Police spokesman Constable Christina Fonsech told The
readEx-caretaker jailed for storeroom murder at city school
20-03-2006
FORMER Centaurus High School caretaker Johnny Venter has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for murdering a woman and then hiding her body in a storeroom on the school grounds for more than a
readNDC bosses found guilty
20-03-2006
NAMIBIA Development Corporation (NDC) and Offshore Development Corporation (ODC) Managing Director Abdool Aboobakar has been found guilty on all the charges he faced for recklessly investing N$55
readIthana responds to US rights report
20-03-2006
THE Namibian Government has asked the United States to help it overcome the huge backlog in its courts rather than just criticising.Justice Minister and Attorney General Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana
readBrakwater heist 7 to be sentenced on Friday
20-03-2006
THE seven men who were convicted almost a month ago in connection with a N$5,3 million cash-in-transit heist that was carried out close to Windhoek near the end of 2000 are set to be sentenced in the
readSuspension of top cops denied
20-03-2006
POLICE have denied reports that they plan to suspend two top-ranking officials after Informants' Claims and S&T money allegedly went missing.However, a number of well-placed sources have separately
readPolitician's son dies in car crash
20-03-2006
SIMSON Ixuxa !Gobs, son of former United Democratic Front politician Immanuel Simson Madawa !Gobs, and two other young people died when the vehicle in which they were travelling overturned on
readStowaways on goods train
20-03-2006
FOUR boys were found hiding in a container on an Ojtiwarongo-bound train at Usakos last Tuesday, Police reported.The train was on its way from Walvis Bay and stopped at Usakos where the boys were
readPolitician's son dies in car crash
20-03-2006
SIMSON Ixuxa !Gobs, son of former United Democratic Front politician Immanuel Simson Madawa !Gobs, and two other young people died when the vehicle in which they were travelling overturned on
readHuman skeleton found on farm
20-03-2006
FARMWORKERS in the Omaruru District discovered a human skeleton on Wednesday while they were digging trenches for sewage pipes at the farm Omburu.Police reported on Friday that the skeleton was found
readState health facilities poorly managed, says DTA
20-03-2006
THE DTA has proposed that the National Assembly discuss the poor state of health care in the country, contending that it was not getting value for its money and that the Ministry of Health was the
readJuvenile delinquents on increase
20-03-2006
GOBABIS - Theft out of motor vehicles, shoplifting, housebreaking and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm are the most common offences committed by juvenile offenders in the Omaheke
readErongo Region teachers take stock of challenges
20-03-2006
ABSENT teachers and a communication gap between parents and educators have been highlighted as obstacles that hamper successful education in the Erongo Region.Speaking at a meeting with school
readReplacement for CoD in South
20-03-2006
THE Congress of Democrats has nominated Lucas Vries to represent the party in the Keetmanshoop Town Council.Vries will replace former CoD councillor Gertrude Abrahams, who died in January. This was
readAaniilonga ya hogolola aawiliki yawo yomiitopolwa iyali mOnooli
20-03-2006
O SHIGONGI oshinene shOpashitopolwa shEhangano lyAaniilonga moNamibia, ndjoka lya tseyika nawa moshitakumi, National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) shoka sha li mOshakati mehuliloshiwike lyeti 10
readOpenzela yaakulupe ya gwedhelwa
20-03-2006
O SHIMALIWA shOondola/N$300 shoka hashi pewa aakulupe komwedhi (openzela) osha gwedhelwa nOondola omilongo heyali (N$70,00).Shika osha tseyithwa kOminista yIimaliwa Saara Kuugongelwa Amadhila mEtine
readAapangi yAanamibia ya pita inaya hala kIipangelo yokomikunda
20-03-2006
O MINISTA yUundjolowele nOnkalathano Richard Kamwi okwa ti oshinima shAapangi ya pyokoka inaya hala oku ka longa kIipangelo nokUukilinik wokomikunda, oshi li ohoni onene.Nelalakano okukandulapo
readAanahambo yAawambo yokOkavango ya tota po ehangano lyawo
20-03-2006
A ANAHAMBO yAawambo mboka taya tidhwa kOkavango oya tseyitha kutya oya tota po Ehangano lyawo lyedhina Ovawambo Herders Association (OHA), Ehangano lyAanahambo yAawambo, ndjoka tali ya kalele po
readMixed results for Nam at Games
20-03-2006
NAMIBIAN athletes at the Commonwealth games produced mixed results in their respective disciplines, with the swimmers standing their ground well, gymnasts not too convincing, while the rugby team was
readRecords fly at Commonwealth Games
20-03-2006
MELBOURNE - Samson Ramadhani Nyonyi of Tanzania won an action-packed men's marathon in a time of 2 hours, 11 minutes and 29 seconds yesterday.The Tanzanian took advantage of a mid-race mishap to take
readArsenal beat Charlton Athletic, rivals Tottenham Spurs respond
20-03-2006
LONDON - Rejuvenated Arsenal cranked up the pressure in the battle for the fourth Champions League spot with a stylish 3-0 win at home to Charlton Athletic in the Premier League on Saturday.Goals
readNo sweat for Australia
20-03-2006
NEWLANDS - Australia cruised home to their victory target of 95 with no sweat to win the first test against South Africa by seven wickets at Sahara Park Newlands on Saturday.Makhaya Ntini struck late
readBlues brighten Super 14 with unexpected toppling of Brumbies
20-03-2006
WELLINGTON - The Auckland Blues tore away the predictable facade of Super 14 rugby over the weekend, while the Canterbury Crusaders had their lack of depth exposed as the competition neared the
readIn Brief
20-03-2006
* END OF AN ERA - Serbia looked to turn the page on Slobodan Milosevic after burying the former leader, ending a bloody era but posing the question of where the country goes next.* DARFUR PEACE -
readIraq in civil war, says former PM
20-03-2006
LONDON - Iraq is in the grip of a civil war, and Europe and the United States will not be spared its consequences, Iraq's former interim prime minister Iyad Allawi said yesterday."It is unfortunate
readMass protests over job law turn ugly in French capital
20-03-2006
PARIS - Riot police teargassed scores of demonstrators in Paris on Saturday night after an estimated million people took to the streets of France to protest a widely unpopular new labour law.Hundreds
readLiberia wants Taylor tried for war crimes
20-03-2006
NEW YORK - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said she wants ex-president Charles Taylor handed over to a war crimes tribunal for prosecution for his role in Sierra Leone's civil war, with the
readMuseveni threatens to deploy troops in DRC
20-03-2006
KAMPALA - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has threatened to redeploy the military in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo if the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels hiding there attack the country,
readZim opposition re-elects Tsvangirai as leader
20-03-2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's main opposition re-elected veteran party leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday after he called for mass action to ratchet up pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government.The
readGaza on brink of humanitarian crisis
20-03-2006
GAZA CITY - The Gaza Strip is dangerously short of basic foodstuffs and is facing a looming humanitarian crisis as a result of the continued closure of the main trade crossing with Israel, the United
readFarmers hold a key to the worldwide crisis
20-03-2006
MEXICO CITY - Experts searching for solutions to the world water crisis at an international summit here on Saturday said much of the problem comes not from dams, lakes or rivers, but an unexpected
readNo safe water for one billion poor
20-03-2006
MEXICO CITY - Ten years ago, many poor countries hoped private cash would bring safe water to the 1 billion people in the world who lack it, but now corporate interest is drying up.After pumping
readPirate trawlers to face crackdown to aid fish stocks
20-03-2006
PARIS - Pirate trawlers will be tracked by a new database as part of a planned crackdown on illegal fish catches worth US$9,5 billion a year that are adding to strains on global stocks, an
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