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SEVERAL former Brave Warriors coaches have expressed confidence that the national team will do well at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast.

Burkina Faso’s former chief of staff of the gendarmerie who was sacked in October has been abducted from his home by unidentified “armed individuals”, sources close to him said yesterday.

An Iranian court has sentenced 2023 Nobel Peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi to an additional term of over one year in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic while behind bars, her family said yesterday.

The Greek coastguard on Sunday said it had rescued 117 asylum-seekers sailing fromLibya, arresting three suspected smugglers.

Farmers in the Epukiro constituency are up in arms and have expressed dismay over the unceremonious manner in which the eagerly-awaited first cattle auction for the constituency was cancelled by the Eastern Epukiro Farmers Association (EEFA).

Government, through the ministry of agriculture and with funding from the Namibia Agricultural Mechanisation and Seed Improvement Project (NAMSIP), has delivered a total of 24 new tractors to the Omaheke region. 

The world’s five wealthiest men have more than doubled their fortune since 2020, the charity Oxfam said yesterday, as it called on nations to resist the ultra-rich’s influence over tax policy.

Germany’s economy shrank slightly in 2023, official data showed yesterday, as costly energy, high interest rates and cooling foreign demand took their toll on Europe’s export giant.

The Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) welcomed the world’s largest and most sustainable SSCV (semi-submersible crane vessel) in Namibian waters on Friday for a brief two-day layover as it makes its way to American waters.

The Namibia Statistics Agency’s board chairperson Salomo Hei said with 2024 being an election year, it is important to make sure that the Population and Housing Census (PHC) 2023 data is available to assist the process so that the end meets the means.