Iuze Mukube Leading academics, decision-makers and various stakeholders convened for the University of Namibia’s biannual education conference, which took place for three days at the university’s main campus and concluded yesterday. The conference, held under the theme ‘Fostering Innovative Skills-Based Education in the 21st Century for a Sustainable Future’, focused on transforming, changing and forming...
Charles Ndeumane The National Youth Service has selected 100 young people from all 14 regions who will be trained in the charcoal and biomass production industry. As its mandate is to offer personal development programmes and create employment for Namibians between the ages of 16 and 35, NYS earlier this month called on interested youth...
Namibia exported less horticultural products in the second quarter of 2024 than during the same quarter in 2023. The main products exported to South Africa, Angola, Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom were dates, tomatoes, pumpkin, squash, gourds and onions.The Namibia Statistics Agency (NSA) said this in its Agriculture and Fishing Indicators Bulletin Report for the...
WASHINGTON – Tupperware Brands and some of its subsidiaries have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and are seeking a buyer, the food container firm said, after years of dwindling sales. “Over the last several years, the company’s financial position has been severely impacted by the challenging macroeconomic environment,” president and CEO Laurie Ann Goldman...
PARIS – The main Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group in Mali struck a forceful blow to the ruling junta when it hit highly sensitive military targets in the capital Bamako, underscoring its two-pronged strategy of territorial expansion and harassment, experts say. Targeting a military police barracks and a military airport, the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM)...
Charles Ndeumane Molwoshipewa nohokwe yokunongeka aanona, omulongisikola e li mopenzela okwa patulula okakinda kaanona momukunda Onalunike B moshikandjohogololo shaMuthiya moshitopolwa shaShikoto, ashike okwa pumbwa omayambidhidho opo a yambule po okakinda hoka. Omukalimo gwomomukunda Onalunike mOmuthiya Maria Kauna Ndengu ngoka e li moomvula dhopenzela okwa ti peha lyokukala megumbo kee na sho ta longo okwa patulula...
Auleria Wakudumo KHORIXAS – Ovakwashiwana moKhorixas otava ti ombelela yondoongi paife otai ende tai pumbu nonande oyo i li oshivelelwa shefiku shi holike kukeshe umwe. Tava ti paife moKhorixas nokuli eenghambe nomamwili oo a ninga oshivelelwa shaashi eendoongi otadi ende tadi pumbu pomudingonoko, ove nge we i mono paife oya ninga ondilo. Omunangeshefa wokapana...
KYIV – Russia’s counter-offensive to retake territory captured by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region has been “stopped”, a spokesman from Ukraine’s military administration set up in the area told AFP yesterday.Russia earlier this month said it had seized several villages back from Ukraine in the Kursk region, where Kyiv has held on to swathes...
GENEVA – The world remains far off track in tackling the climate crisis, but the UN voiced hope yesterday that artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge technologies will help address the towering challenges. In a new report, the United Nations warned the goals laid out in the 2015 Paris climate accord, aiming to keep global temperature...
Lahja Nashuuta Namibian farmers’ unions, the Namibia Investment Promotion and Development Board (NIPBD) and other land reform stakeholders have rejected the Affirmative Repositioning (AR) Movement’s proposal for a stand-alone law on foreign land ownership in Namibia. In 2019, AR submitted a petition to Parliament in the form of a draft bill for debate and discourse...