A swelling online campaign is demanding that if Senegal is stripped of the Africa Cup of Nations title it won in January, then the team they beat, Morocco, should lose their 1976 crown. The problem, as an investigation by AFP Factcheck shows, is that there is no evidence to back up the claim that 50 years...
The Kapako Constituency Youth Forum hosted a football and netball tournament at Sinzogoro village in the Kavango West Region over the weekend, with 24 football teams and 5 netball teams competing. Matches started on Saturday and ran throughout the weekend as community teams competed for cash prizes. In football, Leevi Hakusembe Secondary School Team A...
KARIBIB – The Navachab Gold Mine has commenced early-stage construction of a N$120 million health centre in Karibib, aimed at improving access to healthcare services in the area. Speaking during a recent site visit, the mine’s corporate communications officer, McLyn Kasale, said the Karibib Health Centre is currently at “phase zero”, involving preparatory works such...
KHARTOUM – In Sudan’s Kordofan, now the fiercest battleground between the army and rival paramilitaries, 53-year-old trader Hamed Hamidan always keeps one eye on the sky, looking out for the drones that punctuate daily life. “They never leave the city,” Hamidan told AFP by text message from South Kordofan’s Dilling, where the army in January...
The Namibia Powerlifting Association held a successful deadlift challenge on Saturday at CrossFit Sold Out in Windhoek, attracting a competitive group of athletes and highlighting the sport’s increasing local interest. A total of 18 athletes participated in the event, including eight female competitors, reflecting a steady rise in women’s involvement in powerlifting. The competition saw...
NEU SCHWABEN – About 300 people living at the outskirts of Karibib at the Neu Schwaben settlement have been battling to access clean water. The residents, most of them small-scale miners, say that access to potable water remains an illusive dream. The settlement is also home to 20 learners commuting daily to Otjimbingwe or Karibib...
Chelva Wells KEETMANSHOOP – The outskirts of Keetmanshoop are defined by an endless horizon of ancient boulders and the shimmering heat of the //Kharas sun. However, beneath this rugged exterior, a new economic pulse is beating. The inauguration of the N$107 million Keetmanshoop Vocational Training Centre (KVTC) on 19 March 2026 is not merely the...
Iuze Mukube John Kangumbe Mutirua (24), who was convicted of murdering two individuals in separate incidents in 2020 and 2023, has been sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment by the Windhoek High Court. The sentence was imposed yesterday by High Court Acting Judge Makapa Simasiku. Judge Simasiku found that Mutirua’s criminal history shows a...
MOSCOW – Russia is pleased that a shipment of its oil reached Cuba despite a de facto US blockade of the island, the Kremlin said yesterday. Russia sent the Anatoly Kolodkin, a sanctioned oil tanker carrying 730 000 barrels of crude, to Cuba earlier this month as the Communist-run island grappled with fuel shortages. Shipping...
JOS – Gunmen killed at least a dozen people in Jos, the capital of Nigeria’s restive Plateau state, sparking retaliation from a mob that killed 10 more, locals told AFP yesterday. Plateau state, in central Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, experiences recurring violence in the countryside, mostly linked to land disputes between farmers and herders. Jos...