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After initially ignoring the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture directive to set aside Friday as a school holiday, some private schools have since decided to toe the line.

The Rössing Foundation on Friday donated 1 415 textbooks and other learning materials to the Oshela Secondary School at Okongo in the Ohangwena region.

Fans have applauded the Brave Warriors’ performance at the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) tournament, despite falling out in the knockout stage to Angola on Saturday.

UN chief Antonio Guterres has pleaded for donor states to “guarantee the continuity” of the body’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) after several halted funding over accusations of staff involvement in Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel.

Finns headed to the polls yesterday to elect a new president, an office whose importance has grown on increased tensions with neighbouring Russia since the invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian defence officials and corporate leaders sought to steal about US$40 million through a fraudulent arms procurement scheme, the country’s main intelligence and security agency said Saturday.

Suspected Somali pirates have boarded and hijacked a Sri Lankan fishing trawler with six crew in the latest attack against shipping in the Indian Ocean, Colombo’s navy said yesterday.

Several hundred people marched in Nairobi on Saturday to protest against femicide in Kenya, where over a dozen women have been killed this month in cases that shocked the nation.

The US Federal Reserve is widely expected to start cutting interest rates in the coming months, as inflation edges closer to its long-run target of 2%. What is less clear, however, is when the first of those cuts will come.