OSHAKATI – The Namibian police regional Commander for the Oshana region, Commissioner Naftal Lungameni Sakaria, has confirmed the arrest of six suspects in connection with a violent attack on a 30-year-old female public prosecutor at Ondangwa last month. The prosecutor was allegedly ambushed on 17 October while driving to work at the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court....
NKURENKURU – Residents of Nkurenkuru are calling on incoming leaders elected in the upcoming election to prioritise permanent employment opportunities over temporary work arrangements that have left many struggling to make ends meet. Roswitha Haita, a 30-year-old woman who has been voting since 2013, expressed frustration with the current system during an interview with Nampa...
Cristiano Ronaldo is set to be available for the start of Portugal’s World Cup campaign despite his red card against Ireland. A FIFA disciplinary committee has imposed a three-match ban, but the final two games are suspended for one year, provided there is no similar infringement during the probation period. He has already served the...
Iuze Mukube Windhoek High Court Deputy Judge President Hannelie Prinsloo last Wednesday scheduled the trial of British businessman Harvey Boulter for commencement in March, next year. This was following the request of Boulter’s lawyer, Sisa Namandje, for a longer postponement in order to consider the Supreme Court judgement that upheld the decision of the prosecutor...
GENEVA – The UN on Monday warned that generative AI could become “a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster,” with human rights the first casualty, as powerful tech giants unleash the technology on the world. UN rights chief Volker Turk said generative AI had “tremendous promise” but told the world body’s business and human rights forum that its...
Fransina Ndateelela Kahungu Meekulu Paulina ya Abisai (WaApi) was born on 14 June 1920 (one of the few people born before 1921) and had been a proud resident of Okalunga Kaatundu village since her childhood. In the early morning hours of Friday, 14 November 2025, the heartbreaking news spread that Meekulu WaApi had peacefully taken...
Iuze Mukube An unwavering and resounding plea for justice was penned in a letter presented in court from the family of a woman who was killed by her ex-lover and the father of her children last Wednesday. The letter presented by a witness, who shall remain anonymous for protection of identity, captured the frustration and...
ACCRA – Ghana has received official confirmation from the United States that Washington has fully removed the 15% tariff imposed on the West African nation’s cocoa and agricultural exports, its foreign minister announced Monday. The move comes at a sensitive moment in Ghana-US relations. Accra recently accepted dozens of deportees from the United States, exclusively...
MOGADISHU – Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city’s cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction. The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency...
Joseph Kaula Onanghulo – Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Esperance Luvindao last week inaugurated two clinics in the Ohangwena region worth a combined N$10.9 million. The Onanghulo clinic in Onanghulo village, Ohangwena constituency, and the Onamukulo clinic in Onamukulo village, Omulonga constituency are now officially opened for business, aimed at expanding primary healthcare...