Fransina Ndateelela Kahungu Meekulu Paulina ya Abisai (WaApi) was born on 14 June 1920 (one of the few people born before 1921) and had been a proud resident of Okalunga Kaatundu village since her childhood. In the early morning hours of Friday, 14 November 2025, the heartbreaking news spread that Meekulu WaApi had peacefully taken...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court Deputy Judge President Hannelie Prinsloo last Wednesday scheduled the trial of British businessman Harvey Boulter for commencement in March, next year. This was following the request of Boulter’s lawyer, Sisa Namandje, for a longer postponement in order to consider the Supreme Court judgement that upheld the decision of the prosecutor...
MOGADISHU – Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city’s cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction. The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency...
GENEVA – The UN on Monday warned that generative AI could become “a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster,” with human rights the first casualty, as powerful tech giants unleash the technology on the world. UN rights chief Volker Turk said generative AI had “tremendous promise” but told the world body’s business and human rights forum that its...
Iuze Mukube A 37-year-old woman was sentenced to an effective prison term of 23 years on a charge of murder last Friday. The sentence stems from the death of her one-year-old baby, who was found buried in a shallow grave on Farm Bucholtzbrunn in 2023. Windhoek High Court Judge Philanda Christiaan, while handing down the...
LUANDA – European and African leaders gathered in Angola yesterday for a summit to deepen economic and security ties, with emergency talks on Ukraine also on the cards. France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Kenya’s William Ruto are among dozens of European Union and African leaders expected in Luanda amid a US-European rift over...
Joseph Kaula Onanghulo – Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Esperance Luvindao last week inaugurated two clinics in the Ohangwena region worth a combined N$10.9 million. The Onanghulo clinic in Onanghulo village, Ohangwena constituency, and the Onamukulo clinic in Onamukulo village, Omulonga constituency are now officially opened for business, aimed at expanding primary healthcare...
With only one day before voters go to the polls, Kamanjab constituency councillor Nikodemus Amutenya says his four months in office have shown that “development can move fast if leaders work directly with the people.” The councillor, who has served only since July, told New Era that Kamanjab has long been treated “like a village”...
Iuze Mukube An unwavering and resounding plea for justice was penned in a letter presented in court from the family of a woman who was killed by her ex-lover and the father of her children last Wednesday. The letter presented by a witness, who shall remain anonymous for protection of identity, captured the frustration and...
ACCRA – Ghana has received official confirmation from the United States that Washington has fully removed the 15% tariff imposed on the West African nation’s cocoa and agricultural exports, its foreign minister announced Monday. The move comes at a sensitive moment in Ghana-US relations. Accra recently accepted dozens of deportees from the United States, exclusively...