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45 Articles found on Wednesday, 11 October 2006
Lamy sees spring 2007 as crunch time for WTO deal
11-10-2006
GENEVA - World Trade Organisation chief Pascal Lamy says there is a window of opportunity to resume global free trade talks between US Congressional elections in November and next March, after which
readNigerian youths seize Shell flow station
11-10-2006
LAGOS - Dozens of youths have seized a flow station belonging to Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell in the restive Niger Delta region, industry sources said yesterday."The affected facility is around Nun
readZimbabwe inflation slows
11-10-2006
HARARE - Zimbabwe's annual inflation slowed to 1 023,3 per cent year-on-year in September, down from a record 1 204,06 in August but still the world's highest, official data showed yesterday.The
readBank rate set to increase this week
11-10-2006
SHORT-term interest rates in Namibia are set to increase by at least 50 basis points towards the end of this week, Johannes !Gawaxab, Managing Director of Old Mutual's African Operations said
readCommunal farmers make N$1,2 m
11-10-2006
COMMUNAL farmers in the Spitzkoppe, Tubusis and Okombahe areas, operating as the Omkhaibasen Community Farmers Co-operative, recently held a second successful livestock auction.The auction was held
readNamibian grapes find their way to the US
11-10-2006
AFTER six years of battling to get into the United States market, the negotiations have finally paid off after the US announced recently that Namibian grapes are now allowed into that country after
readStrike is on
11-10-2006
By the end of business yesterday, a total of 2 734 factory workers had voted since Friday morning on whether or not to take industrial action, and only 269 decided against it.In total, 2 457 Ramatex
readMystery seal mortality
11-10-2006
IN the midst of a storm of international protest about Namibia's seal cull, Government yesterday put out a statement to say seals are dying in large numbers along the coast, apparently because of
readCoD wants NA debate on Lubango torture
11-10-2006
AFTER history was made recently in the National Assembly when Herero Chief Kuaima Riruako tabled a motion for the House to discuss the genocide and atrocities inflicted on Namibians during the 1904
readState appeals fugitive's bail
11-10-2006
THE Office of the Prosecutor General has taken a first step on the road to appealing against the ruling in which a Windhoek Magistrate last week granted bail to Israeli-born former software company
readJailbreaker shot in foot
11-10-2006
AN escapee from the Uis Police cells unsuccessfully tried to fight for his freedom this past weekend when Police officers tracked him down to a farm outside the town.Police arrived at the farm
readExplaining the Communal Land Act in local languages
11-10-2006
Translations of a guidebook to the Communal Land Reform Act were launched on Friday.The guide was translated into six local languages - Khoekhoegowab, Otjiherero, Oshikwanyama, Rukwangali, Silozi and
readKoch's fate now up to Supreme Court
11-10-2006
THREE Acting Judges of Appeal of Namibia's Supreme Court are now holding the fate of German fraud and tax evasion suspect Hans Juergen Koch in their hands.Acting Judges of Appeal Johan Strydom, Fred
readTreason trial witnesses relive Katima attack
11-10-2006
A FOURTH person claiming to have been part of poorly armed separatist groups that set out to attack Government-related targets at Katima Mulilo seven years ago wrapped up his testimony in the main
readNafau protests layoffs
11-10-2006
THE Namibian Food and Allied Workers' Union (Nafau) is demanding the immediate reinstatement of six workers laid off by a supermarket at Ondangwa.The Director of OK Grocer Ondangwa Special, Joans
readTeachers learn about STDs
11-10-2006
THE Namibia Planned Parenthood Association (Nappa) is holding a five-day workshop for teachers in the Ohangwena Region to inform them about HIV-AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.The Eenhana
readOpposition crippled by lack of money
11-10-2006
OPPOSITION parties in Namibia are weak and passive, lack funding and do not have proper administrative structures, a local academic has said.Presenting the results of a study on the topic yesterday,
readMisa welcomes transparency on corruption
11-10-2006
THE Namibian chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa Namibia) has welcomed the Government's decision to make public the reports of various presidential commissions of enquiry."This is
readNo visas necessary between Nam/Angola
11-10-2006
THE Namibian Government has announced that, as from October 6, its citizens no longer need visas when travelling to Angola.The same applies to Angolan nationals travelling to Namibia. The Ministry of
readLivestock producers must think local
11-10-2006
LIVESTOCK producers must realise that local value addition to meat had to increase, since it was irresponsible of the meat industry to export live animals across the Namibian border when local
readCGA slams workers union leadership
11-10-2006
THE Central Governance Agency (CGA) as hit back at the National Union of Namibian Workers, telling its leaders to concentrate on improving the working conditions of their members instead of
readOondjila adhihe mOlyomakaya okolutenda dha taalela
11-10-2006
O MUPRESIDENDE Hifikepunye Pohamba noshowo Omupresidende omukulu gwa Namibia Sam Nujoma mOlyomakaya ngaka twa thinda, otaya ka kutha ombinga onene miilonga yolutenda pokati kOndangwa
readYamwe po Keetmanshoop otashi vulika ya ka kuthwe omagumbo
11-10-2006
A ANTU ye li 32 mondoolopa ya Keetmanshoop moshitopolwa sha Karas otashi vulika ya ka kuthwe omagumbo gawo ku Muni gwoondoolopa ndjika, ngele inaya futa omikuli dhawo dhoka ya li ya pewa ya mone
readkOkongo nako okwa valwa elongo nuumvo
11-10-2006
O NKUNDANA ye tu zilila kOshipangelo sha Kongo mOukwanyama mOshitopolwa sha Hangwena, otayi ti kutya namo mOshipangelo mmoka meti 29 Auguste 2006 omwa monikile elongo, ano uunona utatu oshita, wa
readNafau a geela Ok-Grocer ya Ndangwa sho a laleka yamwe miilonga
11-10-2006
E HANGANO lyaaniilonga lya Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union (Nafau) olya geela noonkondo Ok-Grocer Ondangwa Special, sho a laleka aaniiolonga ye yahamano miilonga omasiku ga zi ko.Mwtitano lya
readNujoma okwa hala okufutitha Green
11-10-2006
O mupresidende omukulu gwa Namibia, tatekulu Sam Nujoma, okwa hala okufutitha ngoka a li nale Menindjela gwa kwalukehi mOkampani ya Social Security (SSC) Avril Green, oshimaliwa shOondola oomiliyuna
readPieter van Wyk to vie for NPL chairmanship again
11-10-2006
RAMBLERS official Peter van Wyk will stand for the elective annual general meeting of the Namibia Premier League to be held at Soccer House on Saturday.The meeting starts at 10h00. The previous
readCampbell out to avenge Goosen
11-10-2006
SANYA - New Zealand's Michael Campbell is plotting revenge this week against South African star Retief Goosen who is the defending champion at the Volkswagen Masters. The 2005 US Open champion
readSimon's exhibition fight still undecided
11-10-2006
NAMIBIA'S former World Boxing Organisation (WBO) middleweight champion Harry Simon's exhibition fight, which was indefinitely postponed at the eleventh hour, has still not been rescheduled.Simon, who
readNFA faces legal action
11-10-2006
THE Namibia Football Association (NFA) faces possible legal action by the Collin Benjamin Football Academy after it failed to hand over the gate takings of close to N$200 000 from a match between
readEuro qualifiers resume
11-10-2006
PARIS - It's make-up time for two of Europe's big guns as the latest round of Euro 2008 qualifiers get underway today.England and France have it all to do to erase the memory of severely disappointing
readGibbs to face Indian police for match fixing
11-10-2006
NEW DELHI - South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs will be questioned by Indian police tomorrow over a six-year-old match-fixing case ahead of the Champions Trophy, a senior police official said."We
readLandis to take defence online
11-10-2006
LOS ANGELES - Floyd Landis, who could become the first Tour de France champion to be stripped of the title over a doping charge, will release an online presentation outlining his defence, USA Today
readGolden Bees regain premiership status
11-10-2006
GOLDEN Bees will play in the Namibia Premier League (NPL) next season after claims that they falsified results in an attempt to gain promotion from the Northern Stream First Division were thrown
readIn Brief
11-10-2006
CORPSES - Sixty bodies have been found scattered across the Iraqi capital Baghdad, police there have said.* BURIED - Hundreds of mourners are attending the funeral in Moscow of the investigative
read42 people killed in Guatemala bus crash
11-10-2006
AT least 42 people have died and several injured after a passenger bus crashed in northern Guatemala.The bus crashed in bad weather on a dangerous mountain road Rescue officials said the bus fell down
readNigeria VP in the dock over graft
11-10-2006
NIGERIA'S Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is to appear before a special court in Abuja to respond to corruption charges.State prosecutors are trying him under Nigeria's code of conduct act. He denies
readEuropean Union 'faces TB crisis'
11-10-2006
DRUG-RESISTANT strains of tuberculosis in Eastern Europe and central Asia are putting EU states at risk of a deadly outbreak, health officials have warned.The Red Cross called it the most alarming
readPoll: Zuma should lead
11-10-2006
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's former deputy president Jacob Zuma won the backing of a majority as the best choice to lead the country after emerging unscathed from rape and graft charges, in a poll
readFidel Castro 'is not dying,' brother
11-10-2006
HAVANA - The ailing Fidel Castro is not dying, but recovering from an illness, his younger brother and Cuba's acting president said on Sunday, responding to rumours that the leader was on his
readNations grasp for response to nuclear crisis
11-10-2006
SEOUL - Japan urged the international community yesterday to impose retaliatory sanctions on North Korea as nations across Asia and the world considered what to do next after Pyongyang tested an
readUK 'bribes' foreign prisoners to leave
11-10-2006
LONDON - Britain's plan to pay foreign prisoners nearly $5 000 to leave the country in order to alleviate overcrowding was derided as bribery by opposition lawmakers and the press yesterday.Home
readDenmark in anti-Muslim cartoons
11-10-2006
COPENHAGEN - Denmark acted quickly on Monday to quell Muslim indignation at a new series of cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad and advised its citizens against travelling to the Middle East as
readNato general lauds Pakistan peace deal
11-10-2006
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's peace deal with Islamic militants in a volatile tribal area could set an example for Nato forces, the alliance's commander in Afghanistan said in an interview broadcast
readSaddam troops buried family alive
11-10-2006
BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein's forces buried a Kurdish family alive in a mass grave during a military operation against ethnic Kurds in the 1980s, a Kurdish woman told the genocide trial of the ousted
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