Suzith Tjitaura Popular Democratic Movement Member of Parliament Inna Hengari said the 2025/26 budget falls woefully short of setting a decisive and transformative agenda for the new administration. She said it lacks the bold economic interventions necessary to tackle the deeply structural challenges facing the country. Hengari made these remarks in Parliament on Tuesday dur...
Lahja Nashuuta As the United States’ tariffs continue shaking the global trading order, raising fears of recession and wiping trillions of dollars off the market value of major firms, Namibia has not been spared as reality begins to sink in. Last year, Namibia exported goods worth approximately N$5.1 billion to the United States (US). Responding...
JUBA – Almost 7.7 million people in South Sudan face crisis levels of hunger, the United Nations said yesterday, many located in the country’s restive northeast rocked by recent clashes. The deeply-impoverished nation has battled instability and insecurity since independence in 2011, with violence between forces allied to the president and his deputy further threatening...
OWENDO – Through dense equatorial rainforest the train steamed ahead along Gabon’s sole railway line, a vital yet unreliable cog shuttling minerals, people and timber — as well as the odd coffin — across the country. “We’re forced to take the train. It’s not a choice,” said Aaron Houchi, a radiologist comfortably sat in the...
ALGIERS – Algeria criticised the US yesterday after Washington reaffirmed its support for Morocco’s stance on the disputed Western Sahara, a territory largely controlled by Rabat, but claimed for decades by the Algiers-backed Polisario Front. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, meeting his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita Tuesday, “reiterated that the United States recognises Moroccan...
GAZA CITY – Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on a residential building in Gaza City killed at least 23 people yesterday, most of them children or women, as the military said it targeted a “senior Hamas” militant. The strike took place in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City, the agency’s spokesman Mahmud...
BANGKOK – A United States (US) academic, charged with breaking Thailand’s strict royal defamation laws, was granted bail yesterday, his lawyers said. But he remains in custody, pending an appeal to immigration authorities who earlier revoked his visa. Paul Chambers, who has spent over a decade teaching Southeast Asian politics at a Thai university, was...
WARSAW – Polish police yesterday announced the dismantling of a vast online network for images of child sexual abuse, an operation carried out in cooperation with 11 other European countries. The operation – codenamed FEVER – led to the arrest of 166 people across Europe, including 98 in Poland. “Among those arrested were people who...
Zebaldt Ngaruka Rehoboth-based Southern Stream First Division League (SSFDL) outfit Friends FC continued with their impressive run in the division after its triumph against Latinos FC on Saturday. The team scored four goals past Latinos, who failed to find the back of the net at Rehoboth Stadium. Friends remained on top of the league table...
Zebaldt Ngaruka EPUKIRO – The re-elected president of the Epukiro Sports Council (ESC), Leo Kandetu, said his prime objective is to have sports facilities in the main town, Epukiro Post 3 in the Omaheke region. Speaking to New Era Sports, Kandetu said the unavailability of a sport facility in Epukiro Post 3 hamper, sport development...