Fransina Ndateelela Kahungu Meekulu Paulina ya Abisai (WaApi) was born on 14 June 1920 (one of the few people born before 1921) and had been a proud resident of Okalunga Kaatundu village since her childhood. In the early morning hours of Friday, 14 November 2025, the heartbreaking news spread that Meekulu WaApi had peacefully taken her last breath at the...
Rising from the ashes: Mogadishu’s building boom
MOGADISHU – Mogadishu is rising, literally, from the ashes of decades of war. Pavements remain scarred by bullet holes and ruined buildings still line many streets, but the city’s cacophony is now one of construction, not destruction. The east African nation saw civil war in the 1990s mutate in the 2000s into an Islamist insurgency that still threatens much of...
US ends 15% tariff on Ghana cocoa, farm exports
ACCRA – Ghana has received official confirmation from the United States that Washington has fully removed the 15% tariff imposed on the West African nation’s cocoa and agricultural exports, its foreign minister announced Monday. The move comes at a sensitive moment in Ghana-US relations. Accra recently accepted dozens of deportees from the United States, exclusively West Africans, on what the...
UN rights chief warns over generative AI
GENEVA – The UN on Monday warned that generative AI could become “a modern-day Frankenstein’s monster,” with human rights the first casualty, as powerful tech giants unleash the technology on the world. UN rights chief Volker Turk said generative AI had “tremendous promise” but told the world body’s business and human rights forum that its “exploitation for purely political or...
EU and Africa leaders talk trade and minerals
LUANDA – European and African leaders gathered in Angola yesterday for a summit to deepen economic and security ties, with emergency talks on Ukraine also on the cards. France’s Emmanuel Macron, Germany’s Friedrich Merz and Kenya’s William Ruto are among dozens of European Union and African leaders expected in Luanda amid a US-European rift over a Washington plan to end...
Capricorn Eagles to face Scotland today
Hilma Nalupe The Capricorn Eagles, Namibia’s women’s cricket team, is currently in Bangkok, Thailand, for the ICC Women’s Emerging Nations Trophy tournament. The tournament began on 20 November and will end on 1 December. It features eight associate member teams and aims to bridge the gap towards major tournaments such as the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup. Namibia lost by...
Suren wins bronze at CAC African Champs
Namibian cyclist, Roger Suren, continued his impressive form this season, securing a bronze medal at the 2025 African Cycling Confederation (CAC) Road Cycling African Championships held in Kwale, Kenya, on Sunday. The championships, staged from 19 to 23 November 2025, brought together riders across multiple categories, junior, under-23, and elite, both women and men, who competed in the road race,...
KK Palace leads NPFL log
Hilma Nalupe Round 8 and 9 of the Namibia Premier Football League (NPFL) concluded last weekend across four different towns, with King Kauluma Palace emerging at the top of the league, followed by African Stars with 14 points, and Mighty Gunners dropping from first to third. Tigers, Life Fighters, and Julinho Athletic are currently at the bottom of the league....
Balzar HopSol’s fiery godmother
Namibia’s most decorated league administrator and female coach Cynthea Balzar is what one might call the godmother of youth football since the inception of the HopSol youth league in 2017. The league, which just ended, has been running for the past nine years, making next year’s kickoff a significant milestone. Balzar, an interior decorator by profession, worked in the hospitality...
Haitope wins silver, Paulus clinches bronze
Namibia’s long-distance runner Lavinia Haitope took a silver medal in the 21 km with a time of 1 hour, 14 minutes, and 12 seconds at the weekend’s inaugural Diamonds and Dorings Bighole Marathon in Kimberly, South Africa. South Africa’s Karabo Mailula took the gold medal in 1 hour, 14 minutes and eight seconds. At the same time, Kenya’s Florence Nyaaingiri...