We are living through a defining moment for the 21st Century, as we experience profound socio-economic disruptions. Covid-19 is not only a global health security challenge that has caused immense loss of life and human suffering, the true extent of its impacts will be most pronounced in the aftermath of the public health emergency. Anticipated...
The Anti-Corruption Commission of Namibia has announced that the country has embarked on the post-project evaluation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy of 2016-2019 and Action Plan (NACS). In a media statement on Tuesday, the commission said that the evaluation will seek to determine progress achieved so far and the extent to which the strategic objectives...
JOHANNESBURG – Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, who is facing a massive corruption investigation, stepped down from the board of the country’s largest mobile phone operator Unitel on Tuesday, citing a “climate of permanent conflict” among administrators. Described by Forbes magazine as the wealthiest woman in Africa, she is accused of diverting billions of dollars...
ABIDJAN – Ivory Coast’s former first lady Simone Gbagbo on Tuesday asked President Alassane Ouattara, her exiled husband’s arch-foe, to grant the ex-strongman amnesty ahead of presidential elections in October. The former first lady and her husband Laurent Gbagbo were both charged over violence that killed some 3 000 people in 2010-2011 after Gbagbo refused...
Oshipuna shoobiliona moAngola Isabel dos Santos, shoka sha taalela omakonaakono molwa okulunga ta itapula nokudhengele ondhi peho, osha ikutha miilonga yemwene onga gumwe gwomaanani yehangano lyomakwatathano moAngola oUnitel. Nguka okwa ti ota thigi po oshipundi shoka omolwa oku ha uvathana naaleli ooyakwawo yehangano ndoka, itaaku ya pehulilo. Isabel omwana gwomupresidente omukulu gwaAngola Jose Eduardo dos...
Bamako – Mali’s largest jail is a squalid and overcrowded colonial-era throwback that in theory is an open invitation to coronavirus. Instead, staff at Bamako Central Prison say that so far they have kept the dreaded virus at bay, thanks to time-honoured techniques of hygiene and self-help. Outside the penitentiary’s ochre walls, the Malian capital...
Hileni Mwandingi GOBABIS – Kugava mukisi ogu guna kutundilira monda zosirongo ndi asi modoropa zaGobabis kamukere mukadi gonomvhura 44 yitundwamo eyi kavageve mosondaha kongurova kutundilira kwaministera goukanguki kuna kureta ekankamo momukunda gwaOmaheke. Nampili ngomu yiana kara asi ogu gwautatu vana gwana Covid -19 kuna kara asi age yige nye gokuhova ana kara asi mutungimo momukunda...
RUNDU – Wokusika komurongo varugani wondango zodoropa zaRundu, muna hamene mukwatelimo kurona pamberewa Sam Nekaro, kuna kara ngesi mevango lyokulikarera pwavene kutunda tupu moutano una puko. Munambudi ogu kahuyungire kumwe naSam Nekaro nkera, ogu kayinkondopere asi wokusika komurongo varugani wondango zodoropa ngesi kuna kara mevango lyavelike kwato kuvatarerapo vantu peke. “Ame kanikere namukwetu mosondaha ogu...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said it is a “lie” that fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest, despite data from his own government showing the number of blazes is rising. The far-right leader has faced international condemnation for presiding over huge fires and rising deforestation in the Amazon – criticism he...
BEIRUT – Tanya can’t be alone in a room. Carla, for days, thought a war was starting. Survivors of Beirut’s August 4 blast are still in shock over a disaster that disfigured their city. The earth-shaking explosion killed 171 people and wounded more than 6 000, a sickening blow to a country already in crisis....