Treble-chasing Bayern Munich are relishing their Champions League quarterfinal against Barcelona in Lisbon after Robert Lewandowski netted twice to seal a 4-1 home win over Chelsea on Saturday in the last 16, return-leg tie. “The anticipation is enormous. Barcelona has a good team with very good players, but if you look at the last few...
HONG KONG – China on Saturday slammed the United States for imposing “barbarous” sanctions in response to Beijing’s crackdown in Hong Kong, capping a dramatic week of deteriorating relations between the world’s two biggest economies. In the toughest US action on Hong Kong since China imposed a sweeping new security law on the territory, Washington...
BEIRUT – A three-member Lebanese parliamentary bloc resigned Saturday in protest at the Beirut blast widely blamed on government negligence and corruption, bringing to five the number of MPs to quit since the disaster. In an emotional speech during a funeral service for one of his top party officials who died in Tuesday’s blast, Samy...
Athletics Namibia (AN) president Erwin Naimhwaka said the federation is still optimistic it will host its remaining championships scheduled for the year. AN called off most of its planned activities when the state of emergency was declared in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In an interview with Nampa, Naimhwaka said the AN board...
The Namibia Football Association (NFA), which expelled the Namibia Premier League (NPL) and its entire executive committee, this past Friday wrote to 16 NPL affiliated clubs inviting them to apply for membership with the association to be part of a new premier league that will resort under the NFA. The letter, which was signed by...
World champion Lewis Hamilton admitted he “wasn’t good enough” after Valtteri Bottas showed just why champions Mercedes re-signed him for 2021 earlier this week by grabbing pole position at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix on Saturday Drawing on his reserves of courage, determination and pace, Bottas beat his championship-leading teammate and six-time world champion with...
EEMBAXU – The northern and eastern regions of Namibia have abundant cattle posts and domestic employment opportunities for unemployed young Namibians, said Kanana Hishoono, the former Swapo Elders’ Council secretary. Hishoono said this while speaking during the Ohangwena region governor Walde Ndevashiya’s maiden state of the region address (SORA) at the Billy Mwaningange Rural Development...
Zimbabwean nationals, including those in the diaspora, had rejoiced at the ousting of former leader Robert Mugabe following massive protests in the southern African country in 2017. Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist and left a divided legacy when he passed on last year, was forced to resign under military pressure after...
Shoombe Shanyengana Late afternoon at /Uibes in the Daweb constituency in the Hardap region, Chrizelda Witbooi holds a three-metre improvised radio antenna made from wire and stick, protruding above the roof, while her husband Dawid !Homchob tunes the radio in the hope to get radio frequency from the national radio broadcast in their local Nama...
Faith Kavamba The Erongo Regional Council (ERC), through its Regional AIDS Coordinating Committee (RACOC) has been combating a multitude of social ills through its pioneering male forum. The male forum programme was established under the stewardship of Kleria Autanga the ERC community health officer who coordinates RACOC within the region. The forum was proposed by...