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46 Articles found on Thursday, 21 June 2007
RSA/EU agreement hurts Namibia
21-06-2007
A SEPARATE trade agreement that has been reached between South Africa and the European Union has had a negative impact on Namibia and also violated an existing agreement among members of a regional
readZim firms operating at third of capacity: survey
21-06-2007
HARARE - Zimbabwean companies are operating at a third of their capacity as a foreign currency crunch hampers imports of spares and raw materials, an industry survey released yesterday said."The
readSA banks charge twice global average
21-06-2007
JOHANNESBURG - Active holders of current accounts in South Africa are paying more than double the global average in bank charges, according to Capgemini, which announced the results of a new
readZambia secures funds rail project
21-06-2007
LUSAKA - Zambia's North-Western Railways (NWR) has agreed a US$250 million financing package with lenders from Britain, South Africa and United States to build a rail link in a copper mining region,
readBillions needed for power projects
21-06-2007
NAMPOWER yesterday listed on the local and South African bond markets yesterday in an effort to raise N$3 billion to finance its most urgent power inter-connector project, a 970-kilometre link to
readBotswana looks at beef and coal to diversify economy
21-06-2007
VICTORIA - Diamond-rich Botswana plans to diversify its economy base by increasing beef and coal exports while cautiously expanding tourism, President Festus Mogae said on Tuesday.Diamonds generate
readResource nationalism on its way to Africa
21-06-2007
LONDON - High raw materials prices are emboldening resource-rich African states to drive harder bargains with investors, but governments will not hold the whip hand until they are less dependent on
readSA finalises diamond export duty
21-06-2007
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has finalised a cut in its export levy on diamonds to 5 per cent from 15 per cent, but tightened exemptions in an effort to boost local processing of gems.Finance Minister
readOn the trail of the 'B1 butcher'
21-06-2007
A RUBBISH bin next to the main road between Windhoek and Rehoboth yesterday produced a macabre find that could be the latest two pieces in the biggest murder riddle now confronting the Namibian
readNervous eyes on petrol pumps
21-06-2007
FEARS are rising that another petrol price hike is on the cards next week, after South Africa increased fuel prices about two weeks ago.Consumers south of the Orange River now have to pay more than
readCuban doctors off to United States
21-06-2007
THREE Cuban doctors who have for the past few months lived in hiding at undisclosed locations in Namibia have been allowed to leave for the United States, The Namibian has learned.The doctors, who
readWAD training centre opens in Keetmans
21-06-2007
A TRAINING centre to empower women was opened in Keetmanshoop yesterday.The centre is run by Women's Action for Development (WAD), which has revived an under-utilised training centre, previously known
readOndonga prince Paulus Shali Elifas dies
21-06-2007
THE Ondonga community in the North is in mourning after the death of Paulus Shali Elifas, the son of Ondonga King Immauel Kauluma Elifas.He died in the Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital on Sunday morning.
readTransNamib's Starliner 'slow train to nowhere'
21-06-2007
TRANSNAMIB was left with egg on its face last week after a train from Walvis Bay to Windhoek was not only delayed by five hours, but then travelled less than 60 km in the next five hours, a situation
readEtosha is affordable, charges the NWR
21-06-2007
THE refurbishing of all three resorts in the Etosha National Park will not make them too expensive for Namibians, the boss of Namibia's State-owned resorts company insists.Tobie Aupindi, Managing
readAction, not words needed to fight violence
21-06-2007
ALTHOUGH Namibia is often quick to say that the elimination of gender-based violence and crime is a national priority, the country is yet to back its words through deeds.This was said by resident
readWe can't expect violence to change until attitudes do ...
21-06-2007
GENDER-BASED violence in Namibia will not be reduced unless the attitudes of men about women change for the better, and if men accept that women have the right to refuse sex, "no matter what the
readAfrica to have unified government by 2015
21-06-2007
THE National Assembly has started a debate on a common, unified African government to be established barely eight years from now after former Prime Minister Dr Hage Geingob tabled the relevant motion
readRefugee Day marked at Osire
21-06-2007
WORLD Refugee Day was marked yesterday at the Osire refugee camp under the theme 'Refugee: Who Cares?'.Earlier this year, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration and the UN High Commissioner for
readFunds, skills needed to fight money laundering
21-06-2007
NAMIBIA'S ability to stem the growing tide of global financial crime, and more specifically money laundering, will be seriously compromised by the inadequate capacity and resources of the country's
readEhupulutho lya Shali ongula
21-06-2007
O shituthihupulutho sha Paulus Shali Elifas, omonamati gwOmukwaniilwa gwOndonga, ngoka a mana oondjenda dhe mOshipangelo sha Nandjokwe mOlyomakaya ga zi ko konima yuuwehame, otashi ningwa
readMeya gwOndoolopa ya Shakati a popitha aaniilonga ye
21-06-2007
M EYA gwOndoolopa ya Shakati Efolo Katrina Shimbulu, ngoka a hogololelelwe mUumeya wOndoolopa ya Shakati meti 14 Mei nuumvo, a pingene po Meya omukulu gwOndoolopa ya Shakati Engelbert Atshipara,
readUudhano wEkopi lya Old Mutual kOosikola wa patululwa pambelewa
21-06-2007
U UDHANO wekondhelo lyEkopi lya Old Mutual kOosikola dhomIitopolwa, Oshana, Ohangwena, Oshikoto ombinga yimwe nOmusati, wa patululwa pambelewa ongula yEtiyali lyoshiwike shika kOmutalelisikola
readPohamba a pandula ayehe ye yile kondjambi yolutenda pOmafo
21-06-2007
POMAFO O MUPRESIDENDE Hifikepunye Pohamba okwa pandula noonkondo ayehe mboka ya li ye ya okulonga pamwe naye kondjambi ye kolutenda pOmafo mOlyomakaya ga zi ko noku ya halela ompolo ombwanawa omolu
readOonambwiyu yoomwedhi ne ya kwatwa koonkondo, gumwe a sa
21-06-2007
O TAKU popiwa kutya okanona koomwedhi ne hoka taku popiwa kutya oka kwatwa koonkondo ku he oka hupa moshiponokela shika shinyanyaleka.Okwa li kwa hokololwa ngeyi mEtiyali lyoshiwike shika kutya
readUganda's chances for Nations Cup slip
21-06-2007
CAPE TOWN - Uganda's hopes of a place at next year's African Nations Cup finals received a setback when they were held to a goalless draw in Lesotho in their Group Three qualifier on Tuesday.The
readCarlos joins Fenerbahce
21-06-2007
ISTANBUL - Real Madrid are losing their experienced players and will end up with just youngsters, Brazilian Roberto Carlos said on Tuesday as he joined Fenerbahce.Real, who won the Spanish League
readEngland beat Windies by seven wickets
21-06-2007
DURHAM - England completed a 3-0 series win over West Indies on Tuesday with a seven-wicket victory on the final day of the fourth test.England, set 110 to win, reached 111 for three as Michael
readWimbledon seeds announced
21-06-2007
LONDON - The seeding for next week's Wimbledon championships were announced yesterday with the All England Club again using players' grasscourt credentials to come up with their top 32.Four-times
readKatjimune to officiate in SA
21-06-2007
WINDHOEK - Namibian soccer referee Mathew Katjimune has been appointed to officiate at the South Africa Vodacom Challenge final on July 28, 2007.The Namibia Football Association (NFA) Acting Secretary
readNFA is custodian of soccer
21-06-2007
WINDHOEK - Namibia Football Association (NFA) spokesperson Beau Kauta said yesterday that anyone wanting to broadcast football in Namibia has to pay the association and not the other way around.Kauta
readBlatter says World Cup hosts face transport challenge
21-06-2007
CAPE TOWN - FIFA president Sepp Blatter says South Africa still faces challenges around transport and hotel accommodation for its hosting of the 2010 World Cup finals.Blatter said he told South
readGladiators go down to Katville
21-06-2007
THE senior national women's team, alias the 'Brave Gladiators', gave a good account of themselves when they played Katville in the first round of the Khomas Under-17 soccer league on Sunday.The Brave
readNamibian featherweight title fight
21-06-2007
SIEGFRIED Kaperu and Paulus Kapia will fight each other in a national featherweight title fight in Swakopmund next Saturday.They will top the bill of a professional boxing tournament to be sponsored
readBrave Warriors to play Malawi
21-06-2007
NAMIBIA will play against the Malawian national soccer side as part of that country's independence celebrations on July 6.Namibia Football Association (NFA) Acting Secretary General Barry Rukoro made
readWomen soccer champs
21-06-2007
WINDHOEK - The first-ever women's soccer national championship will take place in the capital this weekend.The championship is played by the regional winners and runners-up of the women's soccer
readThe rise and RISE of renewable energy
21-06-2007
OSLO - Investment in renewable energies such as wind power and biofuels leapt to a record US$100 billion (about N$725 billion) in 2006 and worries about global warming are likely to sustain the boom,
readChina now world's top CO2 emitter
21-06-2007
AMSTERDAM - China has overtaken the United States as the top emitter of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, because of surging energy use amid an economic boom, a Dutch government-funded agency
readIran complains about Rushdie's knighthood
21-06-2007
TEHRAN - Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador to complain over Britain's decision to grant a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, who was accused of blasphemy by Iran's former
readGunmen attack Somali police stations, 2 dead
21-06-2007
MOGADISHU - More than a dozen gunmen attacked two police bases in Mogadishu early yesterday with rocket-propelled grenades, sparking fire fights that killed at least two people, witnesses and police
readSarkozy 'drunken' video hilarious
21-06-2007
PARIS - French President Nicolas Sarkozy laughed when he saw a YouTube video of himself supposedly drunk at an international summit, and insisted he was merely out of breath, a report said
readLibya Court hears medics' appeal
21-06-2007
TRIPOL - The Libyan Supreme Court began hearing an appeal yesterday by six foreign medics sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with HIV in the final stage of a trial that has affected
readBaghdad death toll rises
21-06-2007
BAGHDAD - Gunmen blew up two Sunni mosques yesterday south of Baghdad, causing heavy damage but no casualties, police said, in an apparent retaliatory attack a day after a suicide truck bombing
readIsrael accepts wounded Gazans
21-06-2007
JERUSALEM - Defence Minister Ehud Barak yesterday ordered the army to allow wounded Palestinians stranded on the Gaza Strip border to enter Israel for medical treatment."Barak on Wednesday ordered the
readSA government gives unions deadline to accept wage deal
21-06-2007
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's government gave unions an ultimatum to accept a revised pay offer yesterday or make do with a previous lower offer in its final push to end a costly three-week civil
readFirst S Leone war crimes verdicts
21-06-2007
FREETOWN - Sierra Leone's special war crimes court handed down its first verdicts yesterday, finding three leaders of a militia guilty of war crimes that include killing, raping and mutilating
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