JERUSALEM – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio yesterday told Israel that the United States backed the “constructive role” by Qatar in mediating in Gaza, after an Israeli strike on the Gulf state against Hamas. President Donald Trump and Rubio have both said they opposed the attack last week on Qatar, which is home to...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs Frans Kapofi praised the high level of competition and camaraderie at the recently concluded Namibia Defence Force’s (NDF) 10th annual sports games held at Gobabis’s Legare Sports Complex in the Omaheke region. The event concluded with a vibrant awards ceremony, where teams and individual athletes from various...
GABORONE – A United Nations human rights expert on Friday urged the Botswana government to grant constitutional recognition and stronger protections to indigenous communities, citing longstanding discrimination against the San people. The San are hunter-gatherers who were evicted from their ancestral land in the Kalahari, where there are diamond deposits. They have lived in southern...
Kaviveterue Virere Deadly stabbing In Okahandja Park, Ernesto Lucas Ngongo Ndara (19), was fatally stabbed on Saturday morning. The tragedy unfolded when he and a friend went to fetch water from a communal tap – an ordinary task that turned violent after an argument broke out with two men. Police accounts state that the suspect...
Lylie Joel SINGURUVE – A determined farmer in the Kavango West region is working to transform food production in his community through the expansion of his agricultural project, despite significant challenges relating to water and access to funding. Thomas Hausiku, owner of Nanzamba Mixed Farming at Singuruve village in the Ncuncuni constituency, is expanding his...
JOHANNESBURG – A South African court on Friday rejected an attempt to block the release of a Netflix documentary about a man convicted of rape and murder who faked his death to escape prison. Thabo Bester gained global notoriety in 2023 after his arrest in Tanzania, a year after he had escaped from a private...
BIZERTE (Tunisia) – A flotilla bound for Gaza carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists set sail yesterday from Tunisia after repeated delays, aiming to break Israel’s blockade and deliver aid to the Palestinian territory. “The fleet that departed Barcelona is already at sea, and the Tunisian boats are now setting sail in stages,” the Global Sumud...
JOHANNESBURG – South African prosecutors announced on Wednesday their plans to reopen an inquest into the death of prominent anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko, nearly 50 years after he died while in police custody. Biko, founder of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement, died in a prison cell in 1977, aged just 30, after being beaten into...
Auleria Wakudumo ONDANGWA – The minister of urban and rural development, James Sankwasa, has expressed deep concern over Ondangwa Town Council’s decision to implement a travelling and subsistence allowance (T&S) policy in defiance of a ministerial directive. Speaking during his visit to assess the implementation of council capital projects, Sankwasa said the local authority had...
Rudolf Gaiseb Thrown out of Parliament after refusing to obey rulings by National Assembly’s presiding officer and speaker Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila, Affirmative Repositioning’s activist-in-chief Job Amupanda alongside his inferior Tuhafeni Kalola, says the standing rules and orders are problematic when it comes to whether members can wear jeans or not. “There is nothing wrong with the...