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50 Articles found on Wednesday, 22 March 2006
Relief group seeks access to new HIV drug in Africa
22-03-2006
LAGOS - A humanitarian group has urged US drugmaker Abbot Laboratories Inc to make a new HIV drug accessible in developing countries, especially Africa.The relief organisation Medecins Sans
readNew strategy to battle TB
22-03-2006
LONDON - The World Health Organisation unveiled a new strategy on Friday to fight tuberculosis, an infectious disease that kills about 1,7 million people worldwide each year.The strategy, which aims
readGovernments blamed for brain drain
22-03-2006
LONDON - Increasing nurses' pay in Britain and ensuring the supply of US doctors meets demand could stem the brain drain of healthcare workers from poor countries to rich ones, researchers said last
readAngola in joint venture with China to set up oil refinery
22-03-2006
LUANDA - Angola's finance ministry said it had partnered with China to move ahead with construction of a US$3 billion oil refinery in the port of Lobito."Yes, it's true, with China," Finance Ministry
readWorld Bank grants Liberia US$25m
22-03-2006
WASHINGTON - World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz on Monday dedicated US$25 million to help rebuild Liberia, after meeting with newly elected Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf."We are
readZim will not back away from mine stake plans
22-03-2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe will not back away from controversial proposals to take majority stakes in foreign-owned mining companies although it is consulting the industry over the proposals, the official
readParty over for booming SA earnings
22-03-2006
JOHANNESBURG - Booming consumer confidence, the lowest interest rates in more than two decades, a steady local currency and soaring prices for key export gold: South Africa's companies have never had
readGM in crisis talks to cut 35 000 jobs
22-03-2006
LONDON - General Motors (GM) is trying to stave off the possibility of collapse by thrashing out a last-minute job-reduction plan with its former subsidiary and now major parts supplier, Delphi, and
readEuropean Investment Bank sells first Nam dollar bond
22-03-2006
LONDON - The European Investment Bank broke fresh ground on Wednesday as it sold the first international Namibian dollar bond.The EIB said in a statement it sold a N$250 million bond due March 2011,
readUS wants active China role in WTO disputes system
22-03-2006
SHANGHAI - China should be held to the standards of a mature trading partner, opening the possibility for it to be party to more disputes brought to the World Trade Organisation, a top US trade
readOil hovers near US$60
22-03-2006
SINGAPORE - Oil prices hovered above US$60 yesterday after slumping a day ago as forecasts for another hefty build in US crude inventories outweighed geopolitical concerns.US light sweet crude for
readTowers of burning gas reminder of oil's curse
22-03-2006
EABOCH, Nigeria - Sooty towers of flame spew into the air night and day as excess natural gas from the petroleum industry burns off, buffeting Nigerian villagers with jet-force heat and noise.For
readFive in drugs bust
22-03-2006
FIVE suspects were due to appear in the Katutura Magistrate's Court this week for alleged possession of 112 parcels of dagga and 110 Mandrax tablets.Although details were sketchy, Police spokesperson
readGerman actress helps out Gruenau hostel
22-03-2006
GERMAN Actress Marreike Carriere, deeply touched by the living conditions of 51 children at the Immanuel Hostel at Gruenau, has opened her heart and wallet."Life here gets me down to the ground,"
readEU project aims to slash rural poverty
22-03-2006
WITH Namibia ranked as the country with the most unequal distribution of wealth in the world, the National Planning Commission (NPC) and the European Union (EU) last week launched a programme which
readMaternal hippo targeted
22-03-2006
RUNDU - The Environment Ministry has warned people at Karugei village in Ndiyona constituency to cross the river elsewhere when they visit Angola.Warden Colgar Sikopo says a hippo living in the river
readVaalgras community patches up wounds
22-03-2006
KEETMANSHOOP - The Orlams community of Vaalgras seems to have buried the hatchet that at one point threatened to polarise the clan.This emerged after a meeting held at Vaalgras last weekend to
readInquest into Kandara's death to start today
22-03-2006
THE judicial inquest into the death of Lazarus Kandara in Police custody almost seven months ago is set to start in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court today.All but two of the 23 witnesses who have been
readGovt silence on assassination reports condemned
22-03-2006
THE Congress of Democrats has expressed concern about the flippant manner in which Government is responding to reports of assassination attempts against top politicians.CoD leader Ben Ulenga says he
read'We will defeat the enemy'
22-03-2006
CORRUPTION is the enemy of the poor, the sick and the unemployed. And it will be rooted out. In his address to the nation on the 16th anniversary of Independence, President Hifikepunye Pohamba
readTreason witnesses testify without challenge
22-03-2006
THE first two witnesses in what will be the main part of a second Caprivi high treason trial finished their testimony in the High Court in Windhoek on Monday without facing a single question from the
readDiplomats's grandson loses legal counsel
22-03-2006
A NEW trial date has been set for the grandson of a Namibian diplomat, Zondi Ashipembe, to face charges of attempted rape, robbery and housebreaking in the Pretoria Regional Court.When Ashipembe
readSwakopmund ratepayers up in arms over Council footing Africa Cup of Nations bid
22-03-2006
THE Swakopmund Town Council has come under fire from the town's Residents Association (SRA) for supporting Namibia's bid to host Africa's biggest football event in 2010.Namibia is one of eight
readNamibia's democracy grows
22-03-2006
WINDHOEK - The peaceful transfer of power from Founding President Sam Nujoma to President Hifikepunye Pohamba is a vivid indication that the country's tree of democracy has grown deep roots, Pohamba
readParastatals warned to deliver the goods
22-03-2006
THE days are numbered for State-owned enterprises that await annual Government handouts without being able to produce the goods.Finance Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila issued a stiff warning to
readTwo elderly women burn to death in their hut
22-03-2006
TWO elderly women burnt to death in their hut at Akweenyanga village near Ongwediva in Oshana region on Monday night.The deceased have been identified as Albertina Mukwaanyoka Udina (82) and her
readAbdool Aboobakar a monika ondjo
22-03-2006
O SHA monika mo kutya omukuluntuwiliki gwOkampani ya Namibia Development Corporation (NDC) noya Offshore Development Company (ODC) Abdool Aboobakar, okwa longo nuusha nomeholamo sho a pitike ekutha
readOmonamati gwomunapolitika a sa moshiponga shohauto
22-03-2006
S IMSON Ixuxa I Gobs, omonamati gwa Immanuel Simson Madawa !Gobs, ngoka a li nale omunapolitika gongundu yo United Democratic Fron (UDF) nayakwawo ye li yaali, oya sho ohauto moka ya li ya kandoma
readIihokolola nayi kale hayi ningilwa puuyelele
22-03-2006
P ETHIMBO ta popitha oshigwana she shoka she yile kOshiithanene shOmagongo pOmhedi mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena mOlyomakaya ngaka ga zi ko, Ohamba yAukwanyama meekulu Martha Mwadinomho ya
readIigwanahangano otayi ka tameka ishewe neshunitho lyAangola
22-03-2006
G ENEVA - Iigwanahangano omasiku ga zi ko oya tseyitha kutya otaya ka tameka ishewe neshunitho lyoontauki dhAangola ndhoka dhi li mu Zambia.Iigwanahangano oya li ya hala ngeno ya hala oontauki adhihe
readVries oye e lile po CoD mElelo lya Keetmanshoop
22-03-2006
O NGUNDU yo Congress of Democrats (CoD) oya ulike Lucas Vries, oye a kale Kansola gwawo mElelo lyondoloopa ya Keetmanshoop.Vries okwa kutha po oshipundi shoka sha li ku Kansela Gertrud Abrahams, ngoka
readOnkalo mIipangelo nayi kundathanwe, Venaani ta ti
22-03-2006
M C Henry Venaani, oshilyo shongundu yompilamena yo DTA mOmutumba gwOpashigwana, okwa ti Egumbo ndika nali kundathane onkalo nomayakulo mIpangelo nomOosenda dhilwe dhomakathelo gopaunamiti, mbyoka ta
readTaylor okwa halika kegumbo
22-03-2006
N GOKA a li nale Omupresidende gwa Liberia Charles Taylor, okwa halika a shune kegumbo opo a pangulilwe iilonga iiwinayi mbyoka e yi longo moshilongo shika.Taylor, ngoka ngashiingeyi a pewa
readEimbilo lyOpashigwana nali tolokwe momalaka gaavalelwamo; Nghifikwa ta ti
22-03-2006
O MUNDJOKONONI a tseyika nawa tate Abednego Nghifikwa okwa ningi eindilo enene kutya Eimbilo lyopashigwana nali tolokwe momalaka gaavalelwamo opo kehe gumwe, unene tuu aakulup mboka kaye uvite ko
readmOukwanyama ya dhana oshituthi shawo shomagongo
22-03-2006
N ONANDO inaya dhana we oshituthi shomagongo naanaa ngashi sha totelwe po kOmupresidende Omukulu Sam Nujoma, momumvo 2001 mOngandjera ndele tashi dhanwa wo mIitopolwa yimwe yopamuthigululwakalo
readUumatyona wi iholeka meshina lyokolutenda
22-03-2006
U UMATYONA u li une owa istuwa wa holoma mekondaina limwe lya li meshina lyokolutenda pu Usakos mEtiyali lya zi ko.Eshina ndika lyoyene olya li tali zi kOmbaye sho lya sitopa pu Usakos. Inaku monika
readOmasipa gomuntu gi itsuwa pofaalama
22-03-2006
A ANIILONGA moofalama dhomomudhingoloko gwa Maruru oyi itsu omasipa gomuntu mEtitatu lya zi ko - manga ya li taya the omukanka gwoopaipi dhuundjugo pofaalama ya Omburu.Opolisi oya lopota kutya
readSports Briefs Uutoni into semis at Games
22-03-2006
NAMIBIAN boxer Jafet Uutoni has progressed to the semi-finals of the light-flyweight competition of the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.Uutoni beat Jack Willie from Papa New Guinea in the
readHitman retains Pan African title
22-03-2006
NAMIBIA'S champion boxer Paulus 'Hitman' Moses retained his World Boxing Association (WBA) Pan African welterweight title after being pushed to the limit by Zimbabwe's Mischek Kondwane in a trilling
readCivics out of Champs League
22-03-2006
BUSCSCHULE Civics will return home from Ivory Coast today after losing 3-0 to that country´s ASEC Mamosas in their CAF Champions League match played in Abidjan on Sunday.The Namibian league
readOtto Nakapunda is blitz chess champion
22-03-2006
THE inaugural Independence Blitz chess tournament held on Saturday in Katutura turned out to be a two-horse race between Otto Z.Nakapunda and Max B. Nitzborn, which Nakapunda won by the smallest of
readIn Brief
22-03-2006
* DROUGHT - East African leaders appealed for international help to combat a drought that is threatening millions of lives but said they had the means to resolve long-running conflicts that keep the
readUS will 'not abandon Iraq', vows Bush
22-03-2006
BAGHDAD - Iraq entered the fourth year of war yesterday amid fears of civil war, as US President George W. Bush vowed not to "abandon" the violence-torn country.At least 26 people died in attacks
readChina, Russia united on Iran diplomacy
22-03-2006
BEIJING - China and Russia are united in pushing for more diplomacy to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue, China said yesterday, a day after the two deflected Western moves to authorise UN Security
readKeep politics out of census, Nigerians told
22-03-2006
ABUJA - Nigeria began its first census in 15 years yesterday with President Olusegun Obasanjo, eager to avoid a repeat of previous fiascos, appealing to his countrymen to leave politics out of
readZim govt vows to crush planned protests
22-03-2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe State Security Minister Didymus Mutasa has warned opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and his supporters that the government will crush any mass protests against President Robert
readTime to finish LRA 'once and for all'
22-03-2006
NAIROBI - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday urged neighbouring states Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help decimate insurgents from the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a
readBelarus election demonstrators defy ban
22-03-2006
MINSK - Hundreds of opposition supporters camped yesterday in the main square of Minsk after an all-night vigil, defying a government ban and icy cold to protest the re-election of Belarus President
readBarbara Guest, acclaimed poet
22-03-2006
BERKELEY, California - Modernist poet Barbara Guest, the best known woman in the influential New York School of avant-garde poets and a winner of the prestigious Robert Frost Medal, died last
readRL Scott, flying ace
22-03-2006
RETIRED Brigadier General Robert L Scott, the World War II flying ace who told of his exploits in the China-Burma-India theatre in his book 'God is My Co-Pilot', has died.He was 97. The Georgia-born
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