SWAKOPMUND – The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform has justified its decision to award Eco Fish Farms the right to harvest 10 000 metric tonnes of pilchards under a Governmental Objectives quota. According to the ministry, the move is aimed at safeguarding national food security and sustaining jobs at the country’s last...
MADRID – Israel yesterday accused Spain of antisemitism and barred two government ministers from entry after Spanish leader Pedro Sanchez announced measures aimed at stopping what he called “the genocide in Gaza”. The spat marks a new low in relations over the devastating Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territory, launched after an unprecedented Hamas attack...
Hilma Nalupe With the sting their defeat by Malawi still fresh, Namibia’s national football team, the Brave Warriors, are determined to bounce back stronger against São Tomé and Príncipe at the Obed Itani Chilume Stadium in Francistown, Botswana, at 15h00 today. Friday’s 2-1 loss to Malawi was a setback for Namibia’s Fifa World Cup qualifiers,...
SEOUL – South Korea’s foreign minister departed for Washington yesterday for further negotiations following the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid. US immigration officials arrested some 475 individuals, including South Korean workers, during the raid Thursday at a Hyundai-LG battery plant being built in the southern state of Georgia. Officials in...
Rudolf Gaiseb The Minister of Education, Arts and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp, has given an assurance to members of the parliament that cases of food poisoning will not be repeated in government schools. She was speaking in the National Assembly last week following the poisoning incident at Maria Mwengere Senior Secondary School hostel in Kavango East,...
Rudolf Gaiseb Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) deputy leader Kalimbo Iipumbu has urged the Ministry of Health and Social Services to urgently address long queues and delays at public hospitals and clinics. Speaking in the National Assembly last Thursday, Iipumbu expressed concern over reports that more than 1 000 patients were forced to wait up...
Rudolf Gaiseb The leader of the National Democratic Party and headman of Queensland village in Zambezi region, Martin Lukato, has appealed to the government to act on the water shortage his village currently faces. Lukato told New Era last week the situation was dire and the people were crying day and night because of thirst....
MAPUTO – Insurgents linked to the Islamic State group attacked a key Mozambique port town near a major international gas hub, clashing with troops and beheading at least two civilians, locals reported yesterday. The raid on Mocimboa da Praia, around 80 kilometres south of a multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas project operated by French energy giant...
Auleria Wakudumo Omulihongi koshiputudilo shoWelwitchia moNkurenkuru moshitukulwa shaKavango West pamwe namukwao umwe ova anyenwa elifutilemo komhangu yaKahenge moshibofa shekengelelo omo ve lininga vati ovapolifi voipupulu nokukengelela ovanhu. Omulihongi, Romanus Kampasi a siivika nawa Given pamwe naJohn Lutanga nedina la shivika nawa Joe Mafela otava tamanekwa okukengelela ovanhu oikando ya hanga puivali eshi vati ve lininga...
Auleria Wakudumo Ovakalimo vomolukanda Ombili mOshikango koshi yelelo lodoolopa yaHelao Nafidi ova ya momunyanyo wopambili, tava pula elelo opo liva wedele ko komalukalwa avo ile va tembulwe omanga inali yandja onhele keefikola dopaumwene nokoohandimwe. Onhumwafo ya shangelwa omukulunhuwiliki welelo lodoolopa yaHelao Nafidi Inge Haipinge, ovakalimo ova holola kutya elelo ihali tula omakemo nemhumbwe doshiwna shomolukanda...