The noble teaching profession is under attack. Those who have daggers drawn against the profession are of the opinion that it is not catering enough for the hundreds of unemployed Namibians who have studied education. At the centre of the fire is government’s apparent inability to employ these would-be teachers; most of them fresh graduates. ...
On a typical morning in Windhoek, a 16-year-old girl scrolls through Instagram before getting out of bed. She’s not looking for news or inspiration, but she’s already comparing her life to influencers she’s never met. In Namibia, where much of the population is young, social media is not just a tool, it’s a mirror, a...
NAIROBI – Elections for a new parliament in Burundi got under way yesterday but with little risk of an upset after the main opposition was effectively barred from running. The impoverished landlocked country in east Africa has seen decades of ethnic violence, civil war and authoritarian rule.A former rebel group, the National Council for the...
FREETOWN – Deep inside a Sierra Leone national park, a mother of seven was about to set dozens of tree trunks ablaze to make charcoal. Producing the cheap fuel in this way is illegal in the protected rainforest near the capital of a country highly vulnerable to the ravages of climate change. But Aminata Sankoh,...
WASHINGTON – United States (US) President Donald Trump signed a new travel ban that comes into effect on Monday targeting 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen, reviving one of the most controversial measures from his first term. Trump said on Wednesday the measure was spurred by a makeshift flamethrower attack on a Jewish protest...
BRUSSELS – United States (US) defence chief Pete Hegseth yesterday pushed the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to agree a deal on increasing military spending that could satisfy president Donald Trump at a summit this month. The volatile US leader has demanded that alliance members boost defence budgets to 5% of their gross domestic product...
Auleria Wakudumo Eelelo lodoolopa yOngwediva, ola kunghilila ovanangeshefa, ovatalelipo osho yo ovakalimo vomOngwediva aveshe opo ve liufe keemhango nomilandu doveta yomaweelelo mokati kovanhu nomodoolopa. Omushangwa woikundaneki wa dja komukulunhuwiliki wodoolopa Damian Egumbo owa holola kutya elelo lodoolopa ola didilika eweelelo la pitilila okudja moivilo nomomangudumano a yooloka modoolopa. “Ohatu dimbulukifa natango ovakalimo vetu eemhango odo...
Varugani kurona vemepangero ntani nokampani depangero kavakamene edeuro lyawo lyomazuva 15 lyomagano twaromo ntanui ekuliko, ekeverero lyewa, netarururo kalikereko kosirongo saChina. Edeuro lyangesi kalikereko kutunda mo 14 dogoro mo 28 May 2025, sivaro sawo kasiskire ko 24, elikwamo lyangesi kwalifutira epangero lyovaChina merongikido lyo Hunan International Business Vocational College. Ava kavakadewire kuna kara womomberewa zaPresidente,...
FRANKFURT – A jump in electric car sales helped give a slight boost to Germany’s troubled auto market last month, official data showed yesterday, although Elon Musk’s Tesla fared poorly again. A total of 239 297 new vehicles were registered in May in Europe’s top car market, 1.2% more than the same month last year,...
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump yesterday said it was “extremely hard” to reach a deal with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, but the European Union (eu) touted progress in its own trade talks with Washington even though the United States (US) president doubled global metal tariffs. Trump’s latest trade moves came as ministers from Organisation for Economic...