WINDHOEK – A Namibian delegation led by Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Jennely Matundu, attended the inauguration of Venezuelan President-elect Nicolás Maduro in Caracas on Friday. President Nangolo Mbumba delegated Matundu to represent Namibia at the event, where Maduro officially assumed his third term in office for the period from 2025 to 2031,...
RUNDU – A soldier from the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) Nicolaus Kakuru Kamati (25), accused of killing his niece, was denied bail. He made his first court appearance for a murder case, read with domestic violence. The incident happened at Mbambi village in the Mukwe constituency, Kavango East. Kamati has been on the run since...
Thomas Gabriel OMUTHIYA – The Oshikoto Health and Social Services Directorate recorded five malaria deaths at the Onandjokwe district hospital in December 2024. Directorate head Joshua Nghipangelwa on Friday said 196 malaria cases were recorded in December last year alone. He added that the increase in cases was noticed in November. “The most affected gender...
OPUWO – A newborn baby girl is currently undergoing evaluation at the Opuwo State Hospital in the Kunene region after she was reportedly found abandoned by her mother at the town on Wednesday. In an interview with Nampa on Friday, Namibian Police Force (NamPol) regional police liaison officer Chief Inspector Vehangaiza Hindjou said authorities were...
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has deployed its Panel of Elders to address the worsening political and security crisis in Mozambique following post-election unrest. Violence erupted following Mozambique’s October 2024 elections, with protests intensifying after the Constitutional Council confirmed the results of the election in December. A media statement on Wednesday said the decision...
FREETOWN – Sierra Leone has reported its first confirmed case of Mpox since the world’s highest alert level for the potentially deadly viral disease was raised last year. “The patient is a 27-year-old man from the rural district of the Western Zone,” near the capital Freetown, the National Public Health Agency stated in a social...
NAIROBI – Rights groups and doctors on Friday welcomed a ruling by Kenya’s high court that declared it unconstitutional to treat suicide attempts as a crime. Suicide remains illegal in the East African country, with those who attempt it facing a misdemeanour charge that can lead to a fine and up to two years in...
ADDIS ABABA – Somalia and Ethiopia announced on Saturday they would restore full diplomatic relations following a visit by Somalia’s president to Addis Ababa to heal a year-long rift that threatened further instability in the Horn of Africa. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed “agreed to restore and enhance their bilateral...
UNITED STATES – Five days after an inferno razed Pacific Palisades, Maya Lieberman is desperate to find somewhere to live. But unscrupulous landlords who are jacking up prices are making it hard. “The price gouging is going haywire, it’s obscene… I can’t find anywhere for us to go,” the 50-year-old stylist told AFP. Huge fires...
WASHINGTON – Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump for his alleged effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has left the US Department of Justice, prosecutors said on Saturday in a court filing. “The special counsel completed his work and submitted his final confidential report on 7 January 2025,...