MARIENTAL – Former Mariental Urban Councilor Nico Mungenga has called on political leaders to prioritise the interest of all Namibians, regardless of which party wins the upcoming elections. During an interview with Nampa on Monday, the former councillor said it does not matter which party or elected local authority wins the election, as long as...
Charmaine Boois MARIENTAL – More than 29 000 pensioners born before 1944 have registered to vote in the upcoming elections, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) recently announced. They will form part of the thousands of Namibians going to the polls on Wednesday to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly Elections. In the Hardap...
Uakutura Kambaekua OPUWO – Swapo party leader assigned to Kunene, Jenelly Matundu, has urged voters to elect Vice President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah as the country’s first female president, as Swapo seeks to retain its dominance in Namibian politics. Nandi-Ndaitwah is Swapo’s president ial candidate. Matundu made the call during the party’s final rally and voter drive-through...
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) president McHenry Venaani promised that if elected as president of Namibia, his government would only consist of 15 ministers and four deputy ministers. Venaani at his party’s final star rally in Windhoek on Sunday stressed that having a vice president and different ministerial portfolios such as prime minister, and deputy prime...
As part of New Era’s special reportage on the single-biggest event in Namibia’s 2024 calendar, the paper earlier this year reached out to local analysts to weigh in on whether the candidates have the necessary standing, experience, political capital and stamina, as well as the social dexterity to credibly vie for the highest office in...
Suzith Tjitaura KARASBURG – Residents of Karasburg in the ||Kharas Region have expressed readiness to cast their votes in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Wednesday. In an interview with Nampa here on Monday, 39-year-old Mouca Vries said even though he has not participated in elections before he was ready to cast his vote. ...
EENHANA – The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Ohangwena Region is asking Namibians to leave their cellphones and firearms behind when going to cast their votes on Wednesday. According to the region’s police commander, Ottilie Kashuupulwa in an interview with Nampa on Monday, eligible voters are not allowed to take pictures and videos when...
TEHRAN – Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that a war crimes case against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Gaza war was insufficient, and that he deserved a “death sentence”. In his first remarks since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu last week, Khamenei told...
KAMPALA – A Ugandan court awarded damages to 20 people, who were arrested, paraded in public and tortured on suspicion of being homosexuals, in a decision hailed by rights groups on Monday. Uganda passed one of the world’s harshest anti-gay laws last year.But the case relates to the arrest of a group of youth in...
DAKAR – Senegal will on Sunday commemorate the massacre of dozens of African soldiers who had fought for then colonial ruler France by French troops in a Dakar suburb on 1 December 1944. France has deliberately tried to erase from memory the mass killings of soldiers, known as “tirailleurs” (riflemen), from its various former African...