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E limangelekela modolongo 
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E limangelekela modolongo 

Omulumenhu omunamido 22 okwa hangwa a endjelela mokadolongo omo h mu tulwa pakafimbo ovanadolongo ovo va yuka momhangu. Oshiningwanima eshi osha ningilwa komhangulilo yaMangestalata koGrootfontein. Nakufya oye Desmond Khairabeb.Khairabeb okwa kwatelwe po mEtitatu molwaashi a dopa oku liufa komalombwelo a li e a pewa momhangu oyo tuu oyo, sha landula oshikoya shoku ehamaka omunhu kolutu...

New lockdowns ordered … as India virus cases near one million
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New lockdowns ordered … as India virus cases near one million

Patna – One of India’s most impoverished states went into lockdown yesterday, but near-normal traffic on Bihar’s streets showed the difficulty of corralling over 125 million people. The lockdown in the northern state bordering Nepal started as India reported more than 600 deaths in the previous 24 hours, and the Red Cross warned the virus...

African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight
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African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight

Ede – “Strong people don’t put others down – they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in...

Letter – Swapo leadership has successfully set record on Fishrot
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Letter – Swapo leadership has successfully set record on Fishrot

Patrick Smith Last Sunday, Namibians witnessed another high-level display of unmatched accountability and transparency, when President Hage Geingob led the Swapo Party to account on the Fishrot saga in a live streamed and broadcasted address to the Namibian nation. Undoubtedly, the Fishrot saga in which Namibia lost billions of dollars via the greedy Icelandic Fishing...

Mutengo Mukuro village in need of water
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Mutengo Mukuro village in need of water

Shoki Kandjimi  Cecilia Iyambo  Residents of Mutengo Mukuro village located 10 kilometres East of Rundu have pleaded with the government to intervene in their quest to have their water tank connected to a nearby water reservoir so that they could have access to clean water.   This follows an incident where the Directorate of Rural...

Opinion – Can journalism survive when we give away news for free?
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Opinion – Can journalism survive when we give away news for free?

Robin Tyson In both Namibia and South Africa, the print media is under strain. In South Africa, the publishers of Bona, Rooi Rose and Your Family have closed, and media giants such as Naspers have announced the closure of magazines such as Men’s Health and Runner’s World, affecting over 1 000 jobs. Other venerable magazines...

Opinion – Mental health matters during Covid-19 crisis
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Opinion – Mental health matters during Covid-19 crisis

The global Covid-19 pandemic has made us live in unprecedented times. The new realities of compulsory wearing of face masks in public places and keeping a physical distance from other human beings are new norms which we are slowly getting used to but scary at the same time. The current rapid increase of the spread...

Opinion – Youth entrepreneurship: A beacon of hope for Africa 
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Opinion – Youth entrepreneurship: A beacon of hope for Africa 

Leaders are those who connect the dots. Equally, youth entrepreneurship in Africa will be driven by the young minds who have the ability to connect the dots. With so many challenges stemming from issues of ineffective governance, lack of infrastructure (both soft and hard) and most importantly lack of funding instruments for entrepreneurship, being a...

Opinion – The moral state of our nation: Time to take inventory
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Opinion – The moral state of our nation: Time to take inventory

For the past several years, we have been living under the illusion that, after the colonial sunset, we had crossed that historic bridge from inequality to equality, conflict to absolute peace, and from poverty to prosperity. The nation was hopeful at the dawn of independence that we were shaping a society grounded in common citizenship...

Editorial – Parties must wield an iron fist against graft
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Editorial – Parties must wield an iron fist against graft

It is quite interesting that political parties usually take a strong stance against corruption when presenting their manifestos to the electorate every five years when general elections come around. There is no doubt that corruption, in different forms and dimensions, has seriously infiltrated many spheres of our society.  It has impacted mainly the poor, and...