Keetmanshoop’s Quiver Football Club (FC) were crowned winners of the Fourth Harders Cup annual football tournament, walking away with N$200 000 and a floating trophy. Quiver FC beat Spiders FC from Noordoewer 4-2 in the much-contested final at Lüderitz on Sunday. En route to the finals, Quiver FC beat Mountain Rangers of Rosh Pinah FC...
Zebaldt Ngaruka EPUKIRO – Otjinene-based Gustav Kandjii Secondary School (SS) emerged victorious in both the football and netball competitions they hosted on Sunday. The tournament, which aimed to raise funds for the school’s boundary wall, drew participation from 33 schools across various regions of the country. In the football semifinal, Otjivero Combined School (CS) faced...
Charles Ndeumane OMALAPAPA – Omunangeshefa a tseyika nawa Ben Haupindi okwa yambidhidha aakalimo yomomukunda Olupito mOkalongo noosamende dhili 40 opo ya tunge uundjugo momudhingoloko gwawo. Haupindi ngoka a tseyika nawa moongeshefa dhuumini ye okuliwo omunafaalama okwa ti omayambidhidho ngoka okwi iyamba ngaashi ta vulu oshoka anuwa oyena oshinakuganithwa shoku gandja koshigwana shoka hashi yambidhidha oongeshefa...
Charles Ndeumane ONGWEDIVA – Omumati omugundjuka omukalimo gwomOngwediva ngoka ena uunkulungu nohokwe yoku nduluka po iinima ya yooloka ta longitha iiyekelwahi ota kumike aanysha ya longithe iipewa nomagano gawo opo yiimonene iiyemo yo yiikaleke kokule niinima yaafele. Omunamimvo 25 Shetu Nelongo oha shiti po iilongomwa oyindji unene iihongwathano yili momalupe ogendji ngaashi iinamwenyo, aantu nosho...
WAJIMA – Floods and landslides killed one person, and left at least 11 missing in central Japan, with recovery teams at work yesterday in a remote peninsula already devastated by a major earthquake this year. “Unprecedented” heavy rains that lashed the area from Saturday began to subside, leaving muddy scenes of destruction as the national...
RAMALLAH – Global news channel Al Jazeera said armed and masked Israeli forces raided its office in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank yesterday, and issued a 45-day closure order. It was the latest salvo in a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which has worsened during the war in...
TEHRAN – A blast, caused by a gas leak at an Iranian coal mine, has killed at least 51 people, state media said yesterday. This is one of the country’s deadliest work accidents in years. “The number of dead workers increased to 51” in the explosion at the Tabas mine in eastern Iran, the official...
N’DJAMENA – Severe flooding in Chad since July has claimed 503 lives and affected around 1.7 million since, the United Nations said on Saturday in its latest assessment of the disaster. The floods also destroyed 212,111 houses, flooded 357 832 hectares of fields and drowned 69,659 cattle, said the UN’s Office for the Coordination of...
N’DJAMENA – A Chadian opposition party claims its leader was abducted by intelligence agents, saying he was the movement’s latest figurehead to fall afoul of the country’s military rulers. Robert Gam, secretary general of Socialists Without Borders (PSF), was taken away after a meeting with other opposition members, the party’s general coordinator Mahamat Alifa Yousouf...
JOHANNESBURG – A woman died after being stuck overnight in one of scores of vehicles trapped in unusually heavy snowfall in South Africa with traffic still backed up for around 30 kilometres early yesterday, nearly two days after the first people were stranded, authorities said. Cars, buses and trucks became stuck in heavy snow on...