Iuze Mukube A 45-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing his then 39-year-old girlfriend Patricia Hochobes to death with a pair of scissors, has been convicted of murder. The ruling was delivered last Friday by Judge Claudia Claasen, with the sentencing reserved for 20 March 2025. Rodney Afrikaner was found guilty of murder, read with the...
KEETMANSHOOP – Two women who were arrested after they were allegedly found in possession of drugs worth over N$100 000, were denied bail in the Keetmanshoop Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Christina Witbooi, 42, and 21-year-old Claire-Mart Rooi made their first court appearance before Magistrate Unchen Konjore, who postponed their case to 28 April for further...
JOHANNESBURG – Former Democratic Republic of Congo leader Joseph Kabila said on Sunday the bad governance of his successor, president Felix Tshisekedi, had a leading role in intensifying the conflict in the east of the country. The unrest could not solely be blamed on the advances of the Rwanda-backed M23 armed movement or tensions between...
WASHINGTON – French president Emmanuel Macron met with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington yesterday, saying he will present “proposals for action” to counter the “Russian threat” in Europe and ensure peace in Ukraine. Macron is hoping to persuade Trump when the two leaders met on the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine...
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is hospitalised in a critical condition with pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican said yesterday. The 88-year-old leader of the worldwide Catholic Church since 2013, was admitted on 14 February with breathing difficulties. “The night passed well, the pope slept and is resting,” the Vatican said. This is the longest...
INDONESIA – A court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province found two men guilty of sexual relations yesterday, and sentenced them to be publicly flogged, an official said. While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, it is illegal in Aceh province, which imposes sharia, the Islamic law code. ...
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HAVANA – Cuba unveiled a new solar energy park in the capital Havana on Friday, part of an ambitious project to alleviate the communist island’s increasingly desperate struggle with power blackouts.The dire state of Cuba’s power-generation infrastructure, largely dependent on oil from Venezuela, has seen the country of 10 million people struggle with near-daily outages...
WASHINGTON– European Union (EU) trade chief Maros Sefcovic, said on Thursday reciprocity in tariffs should be made to work for both the bloc and Washington, after talks with his counterparts in US president Donald Trump’s administration. While the United States is planning “reciprocal tariffs,” the European Union is open to working with Trump officials towards...
Rudolf Gaiseb A local digital firm, Facilit8 Namibia, has warned that Namibia’s data infrastructure is increasingly becoming vulnerable to cyber-attacks, and the trend is worrying. This was said by Facilit8 owner and technology specialist, Nrupesh Soni. He highlighted recent incidents at Paratus Namibia and Telecom Namibia, saying they revealed concerning underlying issues of cybersecurity readiness and resilience. “Namibia’s...