Agribank, the country’s leading agricultural financial lender, is placing special emphasis on small-scale remote farmers through its latest initiative Branch-on-Wheels, which takes its services closer to prospective and existing clients.
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How to build a resilient farming business
Farmers in Namibia face numerous challenges, including climate change.
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Death toll rises to six in Kenyan gas blast
The death toll from a gas explosion in Nairobi last week has risen to six after three more victims died from their burns, the government’s spokesperson said Sunday.
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Kidnappers abduct 35 wedding guests in Nigeria
At least 35 women are missing after kidnappers seized guests returning from a wedding in northwestern Nigeria, officials told AFP on Monday. The mass kidnapping in Katsina state is the largest in a series of recent abductions across Africa’s most populous country.
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Clashes outside Senegalese parliament
Security forces used tear gas to disperse an opposition rally outside Senegal’s parliament yesterday, shortly before the start of a contentious debate on postponing this month’s presidential election.
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Blinken heads to Mideast to press for Gaza truce
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to the Middle East for another crisis tour on Monday in a bid to secure a new truce in the Israel-Hamas war, as southern Gaza saw no let-up in fighting.
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Iran ‘will not hesitate’ to respond to US attack
Iran said yesterday that it “will not hesitate” to respond in the event of US attacks on its territory after the White House declined to say whether strikes on Iran were ruled out.
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California issues state of emergency
Swaths of the US state of California were flooded yesterday, and hundreds of thousands of people were without power after a dangerous storm brought heavy rains and prompted a state of emergency.
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More tributes pour in for Geingob
Namibia’s sports fraternity continued to pay tribute to the late President Hage Gottfried Geingob, expressing their condolences to the great leader and sports enthusiast who died Sunday morning in Windhoek.
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Osona holds walk-and-run fun day
OsOna Village recently held its Osona Walk and Fun Run in a bid to promote fitness and get people from the neighbourhood to get to know each other.