NEW DELHI – Coronavirus infections in India passed 1.5 million and deaths neared 35 000 on Wednesday, but test results in Mumbai cast further doubt on official data in the world’s second-most populous nation. Even as case numbers soar and more areas impose lockdowns, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this week India was in a...
EPUKIRO – The Okonjoka football team from Aminuis won the preparatory games for the annual Winter Cup held at the Motsomi Primary School sports grounds on Sunday. One of the competition’s organisers, Safe Kaiko, told Nampa in an interview on Monday that the purpose of the games was to prepare teams and players for the...
KABUL – Top US officials yesterday hailed a three-day ceasefire proposed by the Taliban and agreed by Kabul, raising hopes that the long-delayed peace talks between the two foes could begin next week. The Taliban declared that the truce would start Friday, the first day of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, and continue for...
OSHAKATI – The second edition of the Top Score Oshiwana 7-a-side soccer championship was launched at Oshakati in the Oshana region on Tuesday. This year’s tournament has attracted 79 soccer teams, compared to 46 teams registered for the tournament last year and kicks off on Thursday until Sunday at the Uukwangula Sports Stadium, some 10km...
On Monday 29 June 2020, New Era newspaper carried an article titled “Swapo members in Kongola threaten revolt” in which article the regional coordinator Comrade Moffat Sileze told lies of the highest order one would not expect from a regional political leader calling himself the harmless lion of the Zambezi region. Comrade Sileze particularly said,...
There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent corrupt, or vile men. Namibia has become one of the African countries that are experiencing terrible governance. This is a government that is full of corruption, briberies and nepotism. It is stinking in parliament, State House, and other government offices. Rot here,...
SWAKOPMUND – Residents from the DRC informal settlement at Swakopmund were dispersed by the police on Monday evening after they tried to embark on an illegal demonstration for decent housing. The group of more than 300 people, through their leader Erna !Gom-Khaises, demanded to occupy the unoccupied NHE houses in the Matutura residential area, saying...
City of Windhoek CEO Robert Kahimise said the City has been working hard to find lasting solutions to the water supply interruption in Groot Aub. In a media statement availed to Nampa on Tuesday, Kahimise said it has come to the attention of the City that Groot Aub settlement in the Windhoek Rural Constituency has...
Bärbel Kirchner The coronavirus outbreak comes at a time when Namibia was already struggling to return to higher growth levels. Since 2016 Namibia has experienced an economic downturn, and indeed a devastating recession. This situation has been further exasperated by the global pandemic and efforts to contain the spread of Covid-19 and to avoid a...
DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzanian opposition heavyweight Tundu Lissu, who was shot 16 times in a 2017 attack, returned home from exile on Monday to challenge President John Magufuli in elections later this year. Lissu, a former MP with the Chadema main opposition party, was welcomed by hundreds of supporters, who clamoured around his car...