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US hails Afghan ceasefire as hopes for peace talks rise 
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US hails Afghan ceasefire as hopes for peace talks rise 

KABUL – Top US officials yesterday hailed a three-day ceasefire proposed by the Taliban and agreed by Kabul, raising hopes that the long-delayed peace talks between the two foes could begin next week.  The Taliban declared that the truce would start Friday, the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, and continue for...

Top Score Oshiwana tourney launched at Oshakati
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Top Score Oshiwana tourney launched at Oshakati

OSHAKATI – The second edition of the Top Score Oshiwana 7-a-side soccer championship was launched at Oshakati in the Oshana region on Tuesday. This year’s tournament has attracted 79 soccer teams, compared to 46 teams registered for the tournament last year and kicks off on Thursday until Sunday at the Uukwangula Sports Stadium, some 10km...

Opinion – Swapo Zambezi coordinator told lies
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Opinion – Swapo Zambezi coordinator told lies

On Monday 29 June 2020, New Era newspaper carried an article titled “Swapo members in Kongola threaten revolt” in which article the regional coordinator Comrade Moffat Sileze told lies of the highest order one would not expect from a regional political leader calling himself the harmless lion of the Zambezi region.  Comrade Sileze particularly said,...

Opinion – Fill the vacuum and stop the power bulldozers
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Opinion – Fill the vacuum and stop the power bulldozers

There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent corrupt, or vile men. Namibia has become one of the African countries that are experiencing terrible governance. This is a government that is full of corruption, briberies and nepotism. It is stinking in parliament, State House, and other government offices. Rot here,...

Cops disperse DRC residents after demonstration
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Cops disperse DRC residents after demonstration

SWAKOPMUND – Residents from the DRC informal settlement at Swakopmund were dispersed by the police on Monday evening after they tried to embark on an illegal demonstration for decent housing. The group of more than 300 people, through their leader Erna !Gom-Khaises, demanded to occupy the unoccupied NHE houses in the Matutura residential area, saying...

Groot Aub water supply improves
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Groot Aub water supply improves

City of Windhoek CEO Robert Kahimise said the City has been working hard to find lasting solutions to the water supply interruption in Groot Aub. In a media statement availed to Nampa on Tuesday, Kahimise said it has come to the attention of the City that Groot Aub settlement in the Windhoek Rural Constituency has...

Opinion – Support of local production and manufacturing will create sustainable economic development
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Opinion – Support of local production and manufacturing will create sustainable economic development

Bärbel Kirchner The coronavirus outbreak comes at a time when Namibia was already struggling to return to higher growth levels. Since 2016 Namibia has experienced an economic downturn, and indeed a devastating recession. This situation has been further exasperated by the global pandemic and efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 and to avoid a...

Pandemic blamed for Malawi’s surge in early pregnancies 
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Pandemic blamed for Malawi’s surge in early pregnancies 

LILONGWE – School closures in Malawi due to the coronavirus pandemic have led to an alarming increase in child marriages and early pregnancies, child rights activists and government officials warned on Monday.The Malawian government announced the closure of all schools on March 20, even before a single coronavirus case had been reported in the landlocked...

Lissu returns from exile to run for president 
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Lissu returns from exile to run for president 

DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzanian opposition heavyweight Tundu Lissu, who was shot 16 times in a 2017 attack, returned home from exile on Monday to challenge President John Magufuli in elections later this year.  Lissu, a former MP with the Chadema main opposition party, was welcomed by hundreds of supporters, who clamoured around his car...

Omukadhi waPohamba ina hala we okutsikila noshipotha shedhengo
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Omukadhi waPohamba ina hala we okutsikila noshipotha shedhengo

Hamukoto Wakapa Pohamba, ngoka a li a kwatwa po nokuholoka mompangu muApiilili okwa holoka ishewe mompangulilo yaMangestalata gwaWindhoek, ashike paife omukadhi ngoka a li e mu patululile oshipotha shoku ehameka kolutu okwa pula opo ompangu yi kuthe mo oshipotha. Hamukoto Pohamba oye omwanamati gwomupresidente omukulu Hifikepunye Pohamba.  Sho a holoka komeho yompangu mOmaandaha komeho yamangestalata...