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Iuze Mukube The alleged murderer of 27-year-old Delia Weimers-Maasdorp, who was found dead in her flat in the Eros suburb of Windhoek on 25 April last year, will remain in custody, pending the finalisation of his trial. Magistrate Monica Andjaba delivered this ruling on 7 February 2025, dismissing Wentzel Maasdorp’s application in which he sought...
Uakutura Kambaekua OPUWO – The death of Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first democratically elected president, signifies the end of an era, marking the loss of a key figure from the generation of African liberation struggle leaders. Nujoma was the last surviving revolutionary leader from SADC, a class that included Botswana’s Seretse Khama, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela,...
Isabel Bento SWAKOPMUND – “He once gave up his room for me while he went to spend the night at his mother’s house, then returned the next morning with a helicopter to fetch me. He was my chommie.” ‘Chommie’, an informal term for friend, was how 89-year-old José Luis Bastos described Founding President Sam Nujoma,...
Andreas Thomas Namibia’s founding president Sam Nujoma may be gone, but his legacy endures in the hearts and minds of Namibians and people around the world. The nonagenarian statesman died at the age of 95 in a hospital in Windhoek on Saturday, 8 February 2025. Since his passing, people have continued to relate memories and...
BUKAVU – M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian sources said.The fighters and their Rwandan allies entered the eastern city of around one-million people, the capital of South Kivu province, meeting virtually no resistance after having seized the region’s main airport, the sources said....
PORT LOUIS – Police in Mauritius yesterday arrested the island’s former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash in raids on fellow suspects’ homes, officials said. Officers detained the 63-year-old along with his wife Kobita Jugnauth on Saturday and questioned them for several hours, police sources who asked not...
TUNIS – Engineer-turned-social entrepreneur Sabri Cheriha hunches over a washing machine at a small depot in a suburb of Tunisia’s capital, the unassuming home of a start-up he launched to tackle the country’s mounting electronic waste problem.Cheriha said there were currently about eight million household appliances and nine million cellphones in use across Tunisia, but...
VILLACH – Austrians were placing candles yesterday on the site of a stabbing that left a teenager dead and five other people injured, shaking the Alpine nation after last week’s collapse of government talks where immigration and security were major issues. A Syrian asylum-seeker, 23, was arrested just after Saturday›s attack in the southern city...
BEIRUT – Lebanese militant group Hezbollah yesterday urged the Lebanese government to reverse a decision blocking Iranian flights from landing in Beirut, following US warnings. The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it “demands that the government reverse its decision to ban Iranian planes from landing at Beirut airport, and take serious measures to...
CHERNOBYL – A Russian drone pierced a cover built to contain radiation at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine early Friday, causing damage but not releasing any radiation, officials said. Ukraine has repeatedly warned since Russia invaded that attacks and fighting near its nuclear power plants risk triggering a potential catastrophe. The Kremlin rejected...