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Sat, 09 Jan 2021 14:38:26 GMT
Africa's Road to Recovery in 2021 Is a Fresh Start
[Chatham House] The continent now has a chance to reshape its relations with the global economy to create greater pan-African prosperity and resilience for future generations.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:34:33 GMT
Country Records 13 Covid-19 Related Deaths in 24 hrs
[Namibia Economist] The Health Minister Hon Dr. Kalumbi Shangula on Wednesday 6 January announced 13 new COVID-19 deaths, as the country's COVID-19 cases continue to surge.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 10:29:17 GMT
Keetmans Residents Urged to Save Water
[Namibian] The Keetmanshoop municipality has warned locals to use water sparingly because NamWater's terminal reservoir, which supplies the town with potable water, yesterday stood at 30%, with an outflow of 240 cubic metres of water per hour.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:11:31 GMT
Flooding in South 'Biggest Since the 90s'
[Namibian] The flooding of rivers and overflowing of dams in the southern parts of Namibia is said to be the biggest since the 1990s, as the country's third largest surface reservoir, the Naute Dam, was filled to 117,8% capacity yesterday morning.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:09:21 GMT
Soweto Clinic Staff On Lunch As Patients Wait
[Namibian] Patients awaiting treatment at the Katutura Health Centre in Soweto, Windhoek, say they are fed up with the clinic staff going on lunch while they wait for service.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:06:49 GMT
Canjulo Excels At Northern Tigers Gala
[Namibian] One of Namibia's top junior swimmers, Jose Canjulo, excelled with some superb performances at the Northern Tigers Gala in Pretoria last month.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:51:11 GMT
Armyworm Threatens Omusati Crops
[Namibian] OSHIKUKU constituency councillor Matheus Gabriel yesterday said an invasion of armyworms is threatening to create food shortages in his constituency.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:50:25 GMT
Hugely Music Goes 'Huge'
[Namibian] After more than three years in the music industry, kwaito, hip-hop and sambo trio Hugely Music finally released a debut album 'Brothers In Music' recently.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:29:26 GMT
A Good Festive Season for Kunene Rhinos
[Namibian] Chief executive officer Samson !Uri?Khob of the Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) on Saturday said no rhinos were poached during the festive season in the Kunene region.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:07:35 GMT
Cattle Post Human Remains Identified
[Namibian] THE skeletal human remains found at Omako cattle post in the Okahao constituency of Omusati region on Monday this week have been identified as those of a 57-year-old Wilbard Shikongo Iinekela from Oshukwa village.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:05:23 GMT
Katutura Swimming Pool Declared 'Unfit'
[Namibian] The Namibia Consumer Trust (NCT) says Katutura's public swimming pool has failed to meet the World Health Organisation's standards for hygiene.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:00:07 GMT
Melisa Poulton and Earth Element Water
[Namibian] We all know the powerful saying 'water is life'.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:10:52 GMT
Trade-Based Money Laundering - a Namibian Case
[Namibian] An accomplice in a crime is as guilty as the main culprit.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 12:03:32 GMT
Vaccines and New Virus Variants
[Namibian] The discovery of two new variants of the novel coronavirus in the United Kingdom and South Africa has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the vaccines already developed to fight the virus.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:14:00 GMT
Parents Urged to Accompany Children to Beaches
[Namibian] ERONGO'S regional police commander for community affairs, inspector Ileni Shapumba, recently reminded parents to make sure their children do not visit the beach unsupervised.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:07:54 GMT
Riemvasmaker Chief Dies of Heart Attack
[Namibian] The chief of the Riemvasmaker community, Johannes Boy 'Attas' Mangani (80), died after he suffered a heart attack on Sunday at De Riet near Khorixas.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 11:05:45 GMT
Schools to Reopen Late in January As Second Covid-19 Wave Hits
[Namibia Economist] Face-to-face learning at all schools is expected to commence on 26 January, the Minister of Education, Arts and Culture Hon Anna Nghipondoka announced this week.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:38:48 GMT
Warriors Warned of CHAN 'Warzone'
[Namibian] THE city of Limbe is a "warzone" and the Brave Warriors must contest their upcoming African Nations Championship group matches elsewhere in Cameroon, the Ambazonian separatist movement cautioned yesterday.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:27:20 GMT
Kleintjie Gaseb Makes Hospitality Inroads
[Namibian] Benjamin 'Kleintjie' Gaseb is a household name in Namibian football.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:24:59 GMT
Maike Diekmann - Adapting to Changes
[Namibian] NAMIBIAN rower Maike Diekmann, who qualified for her first Olympics more than a year ago, has had a disruptive year as Covid-19 struck and wiped out her normal training programme and international competition.

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 06:42:58 GMT
Brave Warriors 'Not Safe' in Limbe
[Namibian] A Cameroon separatist movement has warned CAF that the northwestern city of Limbe is a war zone and unfit for African Nations Championship matches.

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:13:00 GMT
Relief Rains Down On Northern Farmers
[Namibian] FOLLOWING heavy to moderate rains in many parts of the country's northern regions recently, many farmers have started ploughing their mahangu fields with high hopes of yielding better harvests.

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:13:00 GMT
Januarie Sues Govt for N$74m
[Namibian] THE president of the Namibia Transport and Taxi Union, Werner Januarie, is suing the government for N$74 million in connection with an incident that occurred in August last year where he claims he was assaulted by police officers and membe...

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:12:59 GMT
Khorixas Residents Battle Sewage
[Namibian] Khorixas residents battle sewage

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:12:58 GMT
Germany Gives SMEs N$455 Million 'Shot in Arm'
[Namibian] THE Development Bank of Namibia has signed a loan agreement with the Development Bank of Germany (KfW) to receive funding of around N$455 million to fund the non-agricultural small business loan scheme.

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:01:18 GMT
Confusion About Testing for Covid-19 Variant
[Namibian] MINISTER of health and social services Kalumbi Shangula says Namibia has not yet established whether it will explore testing for the new variant of the novel coronavirus despite the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) saying t...

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:12:54 GMT
Warriors Take Setbacks in Their Stride
[Namibian] THE Brave Warriors are hard at work preparing for the Chan finals in Cameroon, and are determined not to be derailed by the recent Covid-19 outbreak in their camp.

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 09:41:14 GMT
Namibia's Tourism Sector Limps Towards Recovery
[CAJ News] Windhoek, Namibia -- THE Namibian tourism and hospital industry is showing positive signs of recovery from the lull triggered by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:06:32 GMT
Fuel Prices Stay Unchanged in January
[Namibia Economist] The Ministry of Mines and Energy announced that fuel prices will remain unchanged with N$11.38 per litre for diesel while the petrol price will remain N$11.35 per litre for January 2021.

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:45:15 GMT
Mentally Challenged and 7-Year-Old Raped
[Namibian] TWO rape cases were reported in Kunene region over the festive season, acting police regional commander for Kunene, deputy commissioner Lazarus Johannes has said.



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