OTTAWA – Canada said on Friday it would compel banks, insurance companies and other financial firms to disclose the number of women and minorities on their boards and in senior management positions. The move, announced in the government newspaper Canada Gazette, contrasts with a retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes – aimed at...
BUENOS AIRES – Argentina’s president Javier Milei admitted making a mistake on Saturday after promoting a cryptocurrency whose value soared and then crashed, with his office announcing an “urgent investigation”. According to news outlets, Milei posted a message on social media platform X on Friday evening, praising a “private project” aimed at “stimulating the growth...
Subtle acts of manipulation in negotiations generally don’t go unnoticed but they can sometimes be hard to address publicly without one being portrayed as hostile. Just as in diplomacy, coercive diplomacy makes for a strategic approach during behind-the-scenes negotiations and alliances. Coercive diplomacy is often seen in situations where manipulation is involved, especially in the...
Rudolf Gaiseb Children of the liberation struggle, better known as the “Struggle Kids” residing at the Ndilimani farm in Brakwater, paid homage to late founding president Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma on Friday. They thanked him for being a beacon of hope to their parents to fight in the liberation struggle, freeing the country from the colonial...
Iuze Mukube The alleged murderer of 27-year-old Delia Weimers-Maasdorp, who was found dead in her flat in the Eros suburb of Windhoek on 25 April last year, will remain in custody, pending the finalisation of his trial. Magistrate Monica Andjaba delivered this ruling on 7 February 2025, dismissing Wentzel Maasdorp’s application in which he sought...
Uakutura Kambaekua OPUWO – The death of Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s first democratically elected president, signifies the end of an era, marking the loss of a key figure from the generation of African liberation struggle leaders. Nujoma was the last surviving revolutionary leader from SADC, a class that included Botswana’s Seretse Khama, South Africa’s Nelson Mandela,...
Isabel Bento SWAKOPMUND – “He once gave up his room for me while he went to spend the night at his mother’s house, then returned the next morning with a helicopter to fetch me. He was my chommie.” ‘Chommie’, an informal term for friend, was how 89-year-old José Luis Bastos described Founding President Sam Nujoma,...
Andreas Thomas Namibia’s founding president Sam Nujoma may be gone, but his legacy endures in the hearts and minds of Namibians and people around the world. The nonagenarian statesman died at the age of 95 in a hospital in Windhoek on Saturday, 8 February 2025. Since his passing, people have continued to relate memories and...
BUKAVU – M23 fighters and Rwandan troops entered the DR Congo provincial capital of Bukavu on Friday, security and humanitarian sources said.The fighters and their Rwandan allies entered the eastern city of around one-million people, the capital of South Kivu province, meeting virtually no resistance after having seized the region’s main airport, the sources said....
PORT LOUIS – Police in Mauritius yesterday arrested the island’s former prime minister Pravind Jugnauth in a money-laundering probe and seized stacks of cash in raids on fellow suspects’ homes, officials said. Officers detained the 63-year-old along with his wife Kobita Jugnauth on Saturday and questioned them for several hours, police sources who asked not...