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40 Articles found on Thursday, 30 March 2006
Africans risk shipwrecks, mines to reach Europe
30-03-2006
NOUADHIBOU, Mauritania - The latest arrival screams in pain as police doctors strip him naked and dab antiseptic on open sores across his back and shoulders.Nine days drifting on the ocean, crammed
readWB approves US$37b Africa debt write-off
30-03-2006
WASHINGTON - World Bank member nations on Tuesday approved a long-awaited US$37 billion (around N$233,1 billion) debt relief package for 17 impoverished countries that included ways to compensate the
readCanadian firm plans to sell power to Eskom
30-03-2006
JOHANNESBURG - CIC Energy, which plans to develop a US$5 billion (about R31,5 billion) coal mine and power plant in Botswana, will by June name a "major" mining company and electricity producer to
readSA sees slightly lower growth
30-03-2006
CAPE TOWN - South Africa's economic growth rate is expected to slow slightly this year because of declines in the mining and manufacturing sectors, the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) said yesterday."We
readFeedlots for Meatco livestock suppliers
30-03-2006
OPUWO - The Meat Corporation of Namibia (Meatco) is planning to construct a feedlot at Edunda during this financial year.Other feedlots are to be established at Oshifo, Rundu and Katima. The feedlot
readIMF chief urges action over Kenya
30-03-2006
WASHINGTON - International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato called Tuesday on the world community to come to the aid of Kenya's, where millions of people are facing food shortages because of
readChevron sees Angola oil output up
30-03-2006
LUANDA - American oil giant Chevron expects a 40 per cent jump in its Angolan production over the next three years based on billions of dollars in investments to expand its operations, a company
readOil under US$66
30-03-2006
SINGAPORE - Oil prices slipped under US$66 (N$415,80) yesterday after a sharp rally that came on nagging worries over supply disruptions and on expectations of falling US petrol stocks ahead of peak
readNamibian killed in Afghanistan
30-03-2006
NAMIBIAN authorities said yesterday that they were trying to verify reports that a Namibian was killed in a bomb blast in Afghanistan on Tuesday.The Associated Press news agency and the British
readFormer prosecutor sent to jail for three months
30-03-2006
THE first two weeks of the first of two High Court trials in which the former Prosecutor of the Outapi Magistrate's Court is the man in the dock ended on a very bad note for the accused, Stanley
readHangala bids farewell with pride
30-03-2006
OUTGOING NamPower CEO Leake Hangala confirmed late yesterday that he had received a letter from the parastatal's Board saying that his contract would not be renewed, and that he would therefore leave
readPohamba gives green light on new NamPower CEO
30-03-2006
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba has approved the recommendation of the NamPower Board of Directors that Paulinus Ilonga Shilamba of the Electricity Control Board be appointed as the new NamPower chief
readDBC finances still unresolved
30-03-2006
FIVE years after Cabinet ordered the closure of the Development Brigade Corporation (DBC) and Presidential Commission of Inquiry into its affairs, the finances of the now defunct company are still
readNBC fraud case postponed
30-03-2006
THE fraud case of former Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) Director General Gerry Munyama was postponed for the second time yesterday in the Windhoek Magistrate's court.Magistrate Gladys Vries
readHome Affairs Ministry under fire in Parliament
30-03-2006
PERMANENT secretaries came under fire from the Public Accounts Committee in the National Assembly on Tuesday for allowing audit reports of their ministries to gather dust in their offices without even
readNamibia Defence Force senior officer in court over State House crash
30-03-2006
A SENIOR Namibian Defence Force member, John C Kashikakumwe (42), appeared before Magistrate Olivia Mutjavikua in the Windhoek Magistrate's Court yesterday.He is facing four charges of drunken
readHealth Minister says AIDS stats stabilising
30-03-2006
NAMIBIA'S HIV-AIDS statistics appear to provide a glimmer of hope. Health Minister Richard Kamwi revealed yesterday that the rate of prevalence at testing sites had dropped to 17 per cent.Kamwi told
readMbumba begs for private sector help
30-03-2006
GOVERNMENT yesterday begged the private sector to invest in education by helping with the building of houses for teachers, creation of new secondary schools in rural areas and training for teachers.At
readNamibia gets large grant for its parks
30-03-2006
A TOP official in the Ministry of Environment and Tourism says the US$8.2 million granted to Namibia by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the country's Strengthening of Protected Areas
readPOkahandja Park oye li po taa nyenyetele Muni
30-03-2006
Aakwashigwana yomolukanda lwiinyakwi pOkahandja Park otaya nyenyeta kombinga yuundjugo mboka wa tungwa polukanda lwawo mpoka aniwa ku Muni gwa Venduka ihe inau patuluka natango opo u longithwe
readGumwe a lyatwa keshina mOvenduka
30-03-2006
O MULUMENTU gumwe ina tseyika, okwa lyatwa keshina lyokolutenda popepi nontopa ya Simon de Witt mOvenduka uusiku wOsoondaha.Opolisi otayi fekele kutya omulumentu nguka okwa li a lala kolutenda. Okwa
readShixuameni okwa hala aafiki ya pewe omageelo ga kindja
30-03-2006
R UNDU - Kansola gwoshikandjohogololo sha Rundu Rural-West Herbert Shixuameni, okwa ningi eindilo kaaleli yopamuthigululwakalo ya gandja omageelo ga kindja kaantu mboka taya eta omapeya.Shixuameni
readOshitopolwa sha Karas osho shi li pombanda mo TB
30-03-2006
S IGO onene moshitopolwa sha Karas omo mu na aantu oyendji ye na omukithi gwo Tuberculosis (TB), okuyelekanitha niitopolwa yilwe moshilongo.Uupyakadhi umwe ou li nee mpaka ishiwe kutya nonande
readOmvula otayi ka eta uuwanawa nuuwinayi
30-03-2006
O MVULA onene ndjoka natango tayi loko miitopolwa yi ili noyi ili moshilongo, okwa tegelelwa yi ka ete uuwanawa nuuwinayi kaalimimapya.Nonande omvula yonuumvo oya kwathela omahala ogendji ga ze
readNSHR okwa geela Opolisi
30-03-2006
E HANGANO egameni lyUuthemba wOmuntu lyOpashigwana/National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) olya geela Opolisi ya Namibia sho aniwa ya yambidhidha edhengo lyaakiintu yaali pOkahao omwedhi gwa zi
readWie ready for first major
30-03-2006
RANCHO MIRAGE - Michelle Wie plays her first major golf tournament as a professional starting today when the 16-year-old Hawaiian prodigy tees off at the LPGA Kraft Nasbisco Championship.Wie already
readFrank's invitational boosted in tenth year
30-03-2006
THE tenth Frank Fredericks Invitational athletics meet will be held at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek on April 7.The event was sponsored to a record N$150 000 by Namibia Beverages through its
readNational schools' athletics championships in city
30-03-2006
MORE than 800 athletes are expected to take part in the annual Coca-Cola National Athletics Championships at the Independence Stadium tomorrow and Saturday.The event, organised by the Namibia School
readNamibia looking at over a billion for Nations Cup
30-03-2006
NAMIBIA will need at least N$1,59 billion as total direct expenditure to stage the African Cup of Nations (Afcon) in 2010, if the country wins the bid to host the continental football showpiece later
readUnderperforming athletes under threat
30-03-2006
LONDON - Britain's Commonwealth Games sprint flops and other athletes have been told to start producing the goods or risk losing their lottery funding.That is the tough new stance being taken by UK
readPepsi Unam hockey side shock Giants
30-03-2006
UNAM dominated the Coastal Indoor Hockey Tournament at Walvis Bay over the weekend with four of their teams progressing to the men and women's finals.Unam's second team, Pepsi Unam, caused a major
readRunaway Sierra Leone athletes surrender to officials
30-03-2006
SYDNEY - All 14 Sierra Leone athletes who fled the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in a bid to escape being returned to their war-torn country have been allowed to remain temporarily in Australia,
readIn Brief
30-03-2006
* JO'BURG FIRE - A fire swept through a downtown building early yesterday, killing 12 people and injuring 33 others trapped inside by locked security gates and belongings piled in
readObasanjo orders expulsion of Charles Taylor
30-03-2006
ABUJA - Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday ordered that exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor be immediately sent back to his homeland, hours after the war crimes suspect was
readKadima wins Israel poll
30-03-2006
JERUSALEM - The centrist Kadima party emerged the narrow winner yesterday in Israel's watershed election, with triumphant premier Ehud Olmert claiming a mandate to fix the Jewish state's final
readDR Congo elections to be delayed
30-03-2006
BRUSSELS - Elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo scheduled for June are to be delayed to allow candidates 10 more days to register, the president of the country's electoral commission
readUS defends Iraq raid that provoked uproar
30-03-2006
WASHINGTON - Pentagon leaders on Tuesday defended a raid on a Baghdad complex by Iraqi and US special forces amid Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim accounts of a mosque massacre, showing pictures of weapons they
readUN powers said close to deal on Iran
30-03-2006
UNITED NATIONS - The five UN Security Council powers are close to a deal on Iran's suspect nuclear programme and hope for approval of a new draft statement when the full council meets on Wednesday,
readArabs to help fund AU force in Darfur
30-03-2006
KHARTOUM - Arab leaders agreed at a summit yesterday a 150-million-dollar aid package for cash-strapped African Union troops deployed in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.The move came after summit host
readMelting ice threatens sea-level rise
30-03-2006
WASHINGTON - Already the Earth is shaking beneath melting ice as rising temperatures threaten to shrink polar glaciers and raise sea levels around the world.By the end of this century, Arctic readings
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