WASHINGTON – Ratings agency Fitch on Friday downgraded the outlook for the United States to negative from stable, warning of high debt and deficits made worse by the coronavirus downturn. “The outlook has been revised to negative to reflect the ongoing deterioration in the US public finances and the absence of a credible fiscal consolidation...
RIETFONTEIN – The National Youth Service (NYS) is this year anticipating a bumper harvest in white maize and hay at its Rietfontein centre in the Otjozondjupa region, due to the good rainfall received. Its board chairperson Emma Leonard on Saturday told Nampa in an interview at Rietfontein that harvesting of white and yellow maize is...
SWAKOPMUND – A commotion between the security force and some angry members of the public broke out at Swakopmund on Friday evening, resulting in malicious damages to the Mondesa police station. The security cluster during the commotion was also forced to fire warning shots to disperse the angry mob from 22h00. In an interview with...
RUNDU – A newly formed association, known as the Rundu Urban Community Association (RUCA), based in Rundu, has announced it will take part in the upcoming regional and local authority elections slated for November this year. RUCA, at a media conference on Thursday, announced that early this year, it applied with the Electoral Commission of...
Okupatelela oshilongo otaku endele pamwe noudjuu wopaliko, no itaku dulu ku kale efimbo lile. Edi, omupresidente Hage Geingob okwe di popya mEtitatno. Eshi a vilikula oshiwana, Geingob okwa ti Oshitukulwa shErongo otashi twikile oku kala pondodo onhinatu yepato oyo kwali ngeno i na oku ya paexulilo nena. Oitukulwa ikwao ili 13 yo otai kala pondodo...
NEW YORK – European stocks fell Friday following dismal economic data that chronicled the hit from coronavirus shutdowns, while Wall Street indices gained following blowout earnings from tech giants. A day after the US reported an historically bad plunge in second-quarter growth, European authorities released the tally for the bloc and for individual countries. “It...
KUT – Iraqi midwife Umm Mariam used to help bring three babies into the world per day. But with mothers-to-be avoiding pandemic-hit hospitals, she now delivers twice that number in her makeshift home clinic. Across the country recovering from decades of war, health centres face shortages of oxygen supplies and protective equipment even as coronavirus...
The MTC HopSol Soccer Youth League kicked off with exciting fixtures over the weekend at the Sport Klub Windhoek (SKW) and Ramblers Sports Club in the capital. Speaking to Nampa after the completion of matches at SKW on Saturday, Collin Benjamin, the founder of the youth league, said that with the new normal they found...
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic and world No.2 Rafael Nadal have entered the US Open tune-up tournament to be played in New York while Serena Williams is in the women’s field. Organisers of the ATP and WTA Western and Southern Open, typically played in Cincinnati but moved to New York this year due to the coronavirus pandemic,...
New Delhi – More than 80 people have died in recent days after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in the Indian state of Punjab, officials and reports said Saturday. The people died in three districts of the northern state and police have arrested 25 people, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. Hundreds of...