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24 Articles found on Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Suspect admits role in student strangle murder
18-02-2009
ONE of the suspects accused of robbing, gang-raping and murdering a young Polytechnic of Namibia student near Okahao in northern Namibia in August 2006 admitted yesterday that he was guilty of
readPolice recover over 50 stolen sheep and goats
18-02-2009
FIVE men were arrested last week after being found in possession of more than 50 stolen sheep and goats in the Usakos district. According to Erongo’s Police Chief, Deputy Commissioner Festus
readKaras to tackle mother and child deaths
18-02-2009
THE Karas Regional Health Directorate has vowed to reduce maternal and child deaths in the region. Addressing participants at a one-day seminar at Keetmanshoop yesterday, Karas Regional Health
readHard work will save Namibia: Gurirab
18-02-2009
HARD work, wise decisions and seeking regional solutions are needed to curb fallout from the global economic crisis – contrary to what “local analysts and soothsayers” say, the Speaker of the National
readExtortion suspect gives himself up
18-02-2009
THE last member of a gang suspected of extorting more than half a million dollars from an elderly Swakopmund resident handed himself over to the Police on Friday.The Police last week called on the
readEntire Air Namibia board stays on
18-02-2009
CABINET approved the reappointment of the entire Board of Air Namibia for a period of three years during its second meeting on February 3. The appointment is retroactive to January 1 2009. The Board
readMan drowns at Swakop Mole
18-02-2009
THE body of Brandy Wilson (44) washed up onto the popular Mole Beach in Swakopmund on Sunday. Police were summoned to the scene at around 14h00.Wilson was dressed in shorts, indicating that he had
readCaprivi water levels constant for now
18-02-2009
THE danger of floods in the Caprivi Region is not acute for now and residents of informal settlements at Katima Mulilo whose houses were flooded two weeks ago will receive plots on higher ground.While
readAIDS researchers seconded to SADC parliaments
18-02-2009
THE SADC Parliamentary Forum last week held a workshop for researchers under its HIV-AIDS governance programme, who have been seconded to parliaments affiliated with the Forum. The researchers were
readNoteable Quotes
18-02-2009
THE clouds in the Cuvelai look critical. – Chief Hydrologist in the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry Pauline Mufeti informing residents in the North about the pending seasonal efundja flood
readUsher’s wife said to be recovering
18-02-2009
US SINGER Usher’s wife reportedly suffered cardiac and respiratory arrest during a liposuction operation in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and fell seriously ill when she was being anaesthetised for the
readTV founder admits to beheading wife
18-02-2009
NEW YORK – The founder of a US television station aimed at countering stereotypes of Muslims has been arrested and charged with beheading his wife, local media reported.Muzzammil Hassan was charged
readR&B star Chris Brown says he’s sorry, seeks counselling
18-02-2009
LOS ANGELES – R&B star Chris Brown, who was arrested last weekend on suspicion of attacking a woman widely believed to be the pop star Rihanna, says he’s “sorry and saddened” about the incident, and
readCongo refugees swell to 15 000
18-02-2009
GENEVA – The UN says the number of Congolese seeking refuge in South Sudan from Lord’s Resistance Army rebels has reached 15 000.The UN refugee agency says some 4 000 civilians crossed the border into
readZim holds first unity cabinet meeting
18-02-2009
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his arch rival Morgan Tsvangirai sat at Zimbabwe’s cabinet table for the first time yesterday as ministers of the country’s new unity government held their
readSars busts VAT fraud syndicate
18-02-2009
JOHANNESBURG – The SA Revenue Service has uncovered a R12.5m VAT refund fraud scam, Sars said yesterday.Five Ivory Coast nationals were arrested on Monday in Kimberley for their alleged involvement in
readNYC toy fair vendor offers Madoff doll - to smash
18-02-2009
NEW YORK – Mad at disgraced investor Bernard Madoff? There’s a toy just for you. One of the vendors at this week’s Toy Fair is offering the ‘Smash-Me Bernie’, a N$999 Madoff lookalike doll that wears
read‘Killing Fields’ torturer goes on trial in Cambodia
18-02-2009
PHNOM PENH – The chief Khmer Rouge torturer went on trial for crimes against humanity yesterday, the first senior Pol Pot cadre to be tried by the ‘Killing Fields’ court three decades after the deaths
readAfghan civilian deaths rose 40 % in 2008
18-02-2009
KABUL – The number of Afghan civilians killed in armed conflict rose 40 per cent last year to a record 2 118 people, the United Nations said in a new report yesterday.The report said militants were
readAustralia facing floods
18-02-2009
SYDNEY – Authorities prepared yesterday to evacuate some residents of towns north of Sydney as floodwaters inundated parts of a second state in Australia even as wildfires blazed in the country’s
readPresident presses for return to basics on democracy
18-02-2009
PRESIDENT Hifikepunye Pohamba yesterday sounded a rallying cry on democracy as he opened Parliament.In a speech that dwelt on the building blocks and the health of democracy, the President said
readWalvis Bay running on dry again
18-02-2009
WALVIS Bay has water trouble again, after the Kuiseb River came down in flood over the weekend and disrupted the water supply to the town’s reservoirs.The river reached Rooibank near the harbour town.
readEfundja strikes in North
18-02-2009
THE seasonal flood from Angola, known in the North as efundja, has swept into northern Namibia, a senior official in the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Agriculture confirmed yesterday.Silvanus
readN$60m loan facility for resettled farmers
18-02-2009
AGRIBANK and the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement have signed an agreement on a loan facility of N$60 million for people resettled under Government’s land reform programme.The money will be
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