We all wish we could be superman sometimes; we wish we could get by and do it all by ourselves, we wish we were self-made. In reality, it seldomly happens like that, everyone needs and gets help one way or another. Life and circumstances don’t always go as planned and things don’t always work out...
TOKYO – As Japan marks 75 years since the devastating attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the last generation of nuclear bomb survivors are working to ensure their message lives on after them. The “hibakusha” – literally “person affected by the bomb” – have for decades been a powerful voice calling for the abolition of nuclear...
SRINAGAR – Thousands of Indian troops imposed a curfew in Kashmir yesterday, with razor wire and steel barricades blocking main roads a day ahead of the one-year anniversary of the restive region being stripped of its autonomy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed direct rule last 5 August, promising peace and prosperity after three decades of...
Vatican City – The Vatican on Monday said former pope Benedict XVI was not in especially bad health after his biographer told a German newspaper he was “extremely frail”. Pope emeritus Benedict’s health “is no cause for particular concern, especially regarding a 93-year-old person getting over the most acute phase of a painful illness,” the...
JERUSALEM – Israel launched air strikes on Syrian military targets in southern Syria late Monday, after thwarting an attack near the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights. In Damascus, the state-run news agency Sana said Israeli helicopters rocketed Syrian army positions near Quneitra in the south but caused only material damage. It also said air...
Dear Luc Eymael, I hope that this letter finds you well during these turbulent times due to the coronavirus. I know we are not friends but after reading your statement following your departure from Yanga in Tanzania, I was really dejected and I felt that it was necessary for me to pen this letter. You...
Hesron Kapanga The sports ministry and its policy implementing agency the Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) have still not awarded athletes who won silverware for the country at various international competitions last year. In 2019, Namibian athletes in different sport codes won medals at championships such as the Africa Games in Morocco, the World Athletics Championships...
MANILA – Millions of people in the Philippines were ordered to stay home yesterday as global coronavirus infections kept soaring, with the World Health Organisation warning against relying on a vaccine “silver bullet” to end the pandemic. More than 18 million people worldwide have been infected with the virus since it first emerged in China...
Harare – Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned he would “flush out” political opponents as rights groups reported dozens of activists had been arrested in a crackdown. Mnangagwa, who took over from longtime ruler robert Mugabe after a coup in november 2017, said his administration was facing “many hurdles and attacks” including “divisive politics of...
Marythar Kambinda KATIMA MULILO – Law enforcement agents in theZambezi region that is surrounded by Angola, Zambia and Botswana say they rescued four victims aged between 13 and 14 who were entrapped by human traffickers, two of the cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This was revealed by the police at the event...