NKURENKURU – More than 30 000 beneficiaries in the Kavango West Region have received their monthly food parcels under the drought relief programme, since Friday. About 39 000 households across all the eight constituencies in the region are beneficiaries of the drought relief programme. The programme distributes food parcels per household every month to cater...
NKURENKURU – A total of 1 487 malaria cases were recorded in the Kavango West region from the beginning of February to the first week of March. Six deaths were also recorded in the region during February, chief medical officer of the Kavango West Health Directorate Beata Siteketa said during a consultative meeting convened by...
MARIENTAL – Deputy energy minister Kornelia Shilunga on Tuesday officiated at electrification of 115 households in the informal residential area of Maltahöhe. Another 21 households in the August Dam and Kries settlements also received electricity. The inauguration event was held at the open field in the Vaalkamp informal settlement in Maltahöhe. The Ministry of Mines...
ADDIS ABABA – The African Union yesterday said the announcement of a parallel government in war-torn Sudan risked cleaving the country, already ravaged by nearly two years of unrest.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been locked in a brutal conflict with Sudan’s army (SAF) since April 2023 in a war that has claimed tens...
MAPUTO – The latest cyclone to hit northern Mozambique has claimed at least six lives and destroyed more than 900 homes, authorities said yesterday, as the storm weakened.Cyclone Jude hit the Indian Ocean country on Monday, bringing winds of up to 195 kilometres an hour and more than 250mm of rain within 24 hours, the...
KRAMATORSK- For Ukrainian soldiers holding the frontline in the war-battered east of the country, the prospect of a 30-day ceasefire with Russia brought little relief – only distrust and suspicion. Senior Ukrainian and US officials walked away from high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia late Tuesday agreeing to present Russia with a proposal to halt more...
BEIRUT – At least 1,383 civilians, the vast majority of them Alawites, were killed in a wave of violence that gripped Syria’s Mediterranean coast, a war monitor said yesterday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilians were killed in “executions by security forces and allied groups”, after a wave of violence broke out...
GENEVA – Palestinians who say they suffered brutal beatings and sexual abuse in Israeli detention and at the hands of Israeli settlers testified about their ordeals at the United Nations this week. “I was humiliated and tortured,” said Said Abdel Fattah, a 28-year-old nurse detained in November 2023 near Gaza City’s Al Shifa hospital where...
SIBI – Pakistan security sources yesterday said the military had freed 190 train passengers taken hostage by gunmen on the second day of a siege in the mountainous southwest. More than 450 passengers were on board when a separatist militant group captured the train in a remote frontier district, with an unknown number of hostages...
Auleria Wakudumo Opolifi moshitukulwa shaShana otai kongo ovakwanedimo vomulumenhu weedula 42, omukwashiwana waAngola oo a xulifa efyo likumwifi eshi e lihumbila monhopa yomeva momukunda Okapya mOndangwa Omaandaxa. Chief Inpector Thomas Aiyambo okwa shivifila Kundana kutya omulumenhu ou okwa hangika ashike nokamutwe koshilongo shaAngola kolutu tashi feekelelwa kutya omukwashiwana waAngola. She likolelela kokamutwe koshilongo oko a...