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44 Articles found on Thursday, 19 July 2007
Fairy Circles still a mystery
19-07-2007
THE ORIGINS of grass-less circle spots which occur in the vegetated dunes of the Namib Desert remain a mystery.So far scientists have only come up with unsubstantiated theories. Some scientists
readSMS responses on issues of the day
19-07-2007
Best efforts * CONGRATULATIONS Governor Usko Nghaamwa and patron First Lady Penexupifo Pohamba for your effort to rescue pregnant women at Engela hospital (in the North). Do your best comrades. -
readCivil society wants further liberalisation of Agoa
19-07-2007
ACCRA - As the 7th Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) summit is in progress, civil society organisations from the United States of America (USA) and Africa in a parallel Summit have called on
readNam, Angola mull telecoms cooperation
19-07-2007
LUANDA - Angola's acting prime minister, João Baptista Kussumua, on Tuesday in Luanda met with the visiting Namibian deputy prime minister, Libertina Amathila, with whom he discussed the general
readOil below US$76
19-07-2007
LONDON - Oil steadied below US$76 a barrel yesterday after two days of losses, as investors awaited weekly US inventory data expected to show refineries running harder to churn out more
readEven Mugabe cannot sink profit at Zimbabwean 'smoking thunder'
19-07-2007
VICTORIA FALLS - Despite the economic mayhem unfolding in most quarters of Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls is every bit the magnet it has always been, with visitors appearing not to think twice about their
readPetrol revs past N$7
19-07-2007
ANOTHER fuel price shocker is set to hit the nation barely two weeks after the last increase came into effect.From Monday, the price of petrol will go up by 27 cents a litre, while diesel will
readGround Zero
19-07-2007
LICE in a hospital theatre room, broken toilet bowls and hundreds of clinic patients queuing for the attention of one of three doctors on duty.These are just a few of the sights and sounds on show
readN$2,8 million handshake for Walvis CEO
19-07-2007
FORMER Walvis Bay Municipal CEO Augustus Katiti was given a golden handshake of just less than N$2,8 million when he resigned, The Namibian learned yesterday.Katiti handed his letter of resignation to
readGuest house robbed
19-07-2007
The Ganeib Guest farm in Dordabis was robbed of N$130 000 last week.The incident is alleged to have happened between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, when thieves broke the lock to two of the
readCuca shop quarrel leads to killing
19-07-2007
THE Okatope Police in Oshikoto Region are investigating a case of murder after Josua Haimbodi (25) from Onelago/Onkumbula village was stabbed to death after a quarrel at a cuca shop on July 16
readCashier arrested for theft
19-07-2007
THE Oshakati Police have arrested a cashier from the Oneshila Filling Station at Oyetu Shopping Centre at Oshakati accused of having stolen cash of N$18 000 on July 13, said Oshana Police Liaison
readChild dies in freak mishap
19-07-2007
SWAKOPMUND'S Vermeulen family were struck by tragedy yesterday when their one-year-old baby girl, Daniël, allegedly suffocated after her head got caught between the railings of a security gate at a
readMale circumcision reduces HIV infection
19-07-2007
THE Namibian branch of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has welcomed recent evidence that male circumcision reduces HIV transmission by 60 per cent but warned that circumcised men can still
readCongo offers to revive Loudima School
19-07-2007
THE Congolese government has offered to revive a school at Loudima in the Congo Republic, which once trained exiled Namibians during the liberation struggle.President Denis Sassou-Nguesso proposed
readFormer Roessing employees battle for their share of pension surplus
19-07-2007
MORE than half of the people who attended an information session on the Roessing Pension Fund (RPF) walked out as they felt that their issues would not be addressed.At Monday's meeting, the trustees
readToo many taxis says Nabta
19-07-2007
THE MINISTRY of Works and Transport is causing stagnation in the public transport industry by approving too many permits, the President of the Namibia Bus and Taxi Association (Nabta) alleged this
readNamibia and Congo talk trade
19-07-2007
PROSPECTIVE trade in salt, fish and timber between Namibia and Congo were on the table yesterday, when Congolese President Denis Sassou-N'Guesso met business and political leaders at Swakopmund and
readTreason accused loses 'confession' battle
19-07-2007
A HARD-FOUGHT dispute that has occupied the main Caprivi high treason trial since April this year at long last reached a conclusion this week with a ruling that an alleged confession made by one of
readHangame kwa li, Bakondja ta ti
19-07-2007
" SHOKA tandi vulu okupoya, osho shoka kutya hangame kwali.""Aawe, hangame kwali." "Shoka tandi vulu okupopya mpoka, osho shoka kutya inandi ninga iinima mbyoka." Nomapopyo ngoka, nakwiiyaka
readNamibia ota vulu okukutha omahooli ku Congo: Denis
19-07-2007
E PANGELO lya Congo olya pe Namibia ompito okukutha ombinga opo oshidhinditho shomahooli moshilongo shoka shi nkondopekwe paimangokumwe gomapangelo ngaka gaali ye Namibia a wape okukutha omahooli
readOminista yAaniilonga nOnkalonawa ya talela po mUumbangalantu
19-07-2007
O MINITELI yAaniilonga nOnkalonawa Alfeus Naruseb oshiwike shika okwa kala metalelopo lye mOnooli moka a kala ta ningi iigongi nOongoloneya, Oomayola, Aagandjiyiilonga, Aaniilonga, Aakalelipo
readOmunashipundi gwEhangano lyAanangeshefa mOnooli Phillip Amwele a hulithila mOnandjokwe
19-07-2007
O MUNASHIPUNDI gwEhangano lyAanangeshefa moNooli tate Phillip Amwele, ngoka okuza sho a kandomene mu Juni omvula ya zi ko, a kala niipangelo meni nopondje yoshilongo, a hulithila mOshipangelo sha
readSalmaan okwa hala okufala Elelo lya Karas kOmpangu
19-07-2007
O MUNAMBELEWA omukuluntu mElelo lyoshitopolwa sha Karas Salmaan Jacobs okwa hala okufala Elelo lyoshitopolwa shika kOmpangu ngele Uuministeli wOmagumbo nOmapangelo gOpaitopolwa inau ya mo mbala
readOndjila ya Rundu inayi kalekwa: RA ta ti
19-07-2007
E HANGANO lya Road Authority (RA) olya popi kutya etungo lyondjila onene moshitopolwa sha Rundu yopokati ka Rundu nElundu inali kalekwa.Omugandjimulombo gwaRoad Authority Audrin Mathe okwa popi
readOmumbiishofi gwaKatoolika Ncube gwa Zimbabwe a lopotelwa oluhondelo
19-07-2007
H ARARE - Omumbiishofi omukuluntu gwOngeleka ya Katoolika mu Zimbabwe, Pius Ncube, mOmaandaha goshiwike shika okwa kwatelwa moshipotha sholuhondelo, ihe aanaveta ye otaya popi kutya ngaka omalundilo
readWarriors down to 126
19-07-2007
Despite faring satisfactorily in their last recent matches, Namibia dropped three places to position 126 on the latest edition of the Coca-Cola/Fifa rankings released this week.In its last two
readBoxers find going tough
19-07-2007
NAMIBIAN boxers had a terrible Tuesday night at the All Africa Games in Algeria, as all four contestants lost their quarterfinal bouts amidst dubious scoring and allegations of blatant cheating by the
readSanlam in golf charities
19-07-2007
THE Sanlam Charity Gold competition took place at the Windhoek Country Club golf course last weekend in the form of an individual stable ford.The competition was one of the preliminary Sanlam charity
readInline goalie clinic hits the spot
19-07-2007
TWELVE inline hockey goalkeepers got down to the serious business of honing their goal-tending skills last weekend, when the Namibia men's national team goalie, Erik Rodenwoldt put them through their
readRecords fly at Open shooting day
19-07-2007
THE fifth monthly Open Shooting Day by the Windhoek .22 Shooters Club was held at the Luiperdsvallei outside Windhoek recently.A total of 33 shooters were registered on a range that was in a good
readFifa inspector to check stadiums
19-07-2007
WINDHOEK - An International Federation of Football Associations (Fifa) Inspector, Gerard Kapl arrived in Namibia yesterday to inspect the capital's two biggest football stadiums.Under scrutiny will be
readNational MTB Champs on cards
19-07-2007
WINDHOEK - The WCE Namibian National Mountain bike (MTB) championships will be held this Sunday, a week prior to the African Mountain bike championships, set to take place on the same track.The venue
readBiofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia
19-07-2007
JAKARTA - Record-high palm oil prices due to voracious global demand for the oil used for food and now increasingly as a biofuel have left many ordinary Indonesians without their usual culinary
readNamibRand Reserve opens a feeding ground for vultures
19-07-2007
VULTURE restaurants help the birds of prey to not eat contaminated and poisoned food thrown out by commercial farmers, a vulture expert says.Peter Bridgeford of the Vulture Study Group Namibia said
readRobert Myers, journalist
19-07-2007
LOS ANGELES - Robert Myers, who was an Associated Press bureau chief in San Francisco, Honolulu and Salt Lake City during a 15-year career with the news agency, has died.He was 76. Myers was with The
readDmitri Prigov, poet
19-07-2007
MOSCOW - Dmitri Prigov, one of the most influential poets of the post-Soviet era, died in a Moscow hospital on Monday.He was 66. Prigov had been in intensive care since suffering a heart attack on
readKiichi Miyazawa, ex-Japanese
19-07-2007
PMFORMER Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, whose career stretched from Japan's defeat in World War Two through the 1990s "lost decade" of economic stagnation, has died.A finance expert at ease on the
readVon Bismarck, German aristocrat
19-07-2007
LONDON - Count Gottfried von Bismarck, whose life of privileged excess as a descendant of Germany's 'Iron Chancellor' was clouded by two deaths at his decadent parties, has died at the age of
read'I'll pray for fallen Ncube'
19-07-2007
HARARE - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe yesterday rebuked Catholic Archbishop Pius Ncube for breaking his vow of celibacy after state media ran pictures of his arch critic in bed with a married
readIn Brief
19-07-2007
Nuclear facilities shut * BEIJING - North Korea is willing to disable all its nuclear facilities this year, a top negotiator said, just hours after UN experts confirmed that Pyongyang had shut down
readBulgaria, EU move to secure freedom for HIV medics
19-07-2007
SOFIA - Bulgaria and the European Union called on Libya yesterday to transfer six foreign medics to Sofia, after Tripoli lifted their death sentences for infecting hundreds of children with the HIV
readBerezovsky says Britain foiled plot to kill him
19-07-2007
LONDON - Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian tycoon who blamed the Kremlin for the killing of a former KGB officer in London, said yesterday that he had briefly fled Britain last month after British
read195 feared dead in Brazil crash
19-07-2007
SAO PAULO - Rescue crews pulled dozens of bodies yesterday from an airliner that crashed and burst into flames at a Sao Paulo airport, as the number of people feared dead rose to 195 in what would be
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