Nahas Angula News

WITH the first election results starting to emerge from large constituencies yesterday, it seems the Rally for Democracy and Progress has not been able to wrest large numbers of voters from Swapo.

Namibia's Prime Minister Nahas Angula attends the plenary session of the Africa-South America Summit on Margarita Island September 27, 2009.

THE polluters must come to rescue Namibia. - Prime Minister Nahas Angula commenting that the rich industrialised countries, that caused the conditions leading to climate change, must assist countries affected by it THE vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar.

During winter and summer you find them at busy street corners selling newspapers.

The governing party isn't excluded. Namibians forgive us. - Pastor Ben Araeb Food For Thought Should they be banned * WHY is it that shops have to use plastic bags? I vote for the banning of all plastic bags in supermarkets.

I CONGRATULATE you for uniting to consider the issues relating to your country and your future, because this is one way of building the spirit of tolerance.

THE Government Institutions Pension Fund asset base suffered a N$5,4 billion loss in market value as a result of the global financial crisis.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting begins in Port-of-Spain on November 27 and continues for three days.

This is a problem experienced throughout Africa. This can be solved if people would cut back on spending money that they do not have to spend like the increase in salaries and entertainment allowances just approved in their new budget.

Developing countries that are blessed with spectacular environments do whatever they can to encourage tourism.

THE following is an edited version of a lecture by Tuliameni Kalomoh, Special Advisor to President Hifikepunye Pohamba on Foreign Affairs, delivered at a Pacon-organised function in the capital this week.

NAMIBIA is more than N$2 billion 'richer' after the Millennium Challenge Account , courtesy of the US government, was activated yesterday to fight poverty by targeting education, tourism and agriculture.

India Gazette Thursday 27th August, 2009 India is to ink a memorandum of understanding with Namibia for investing in its lucrative mining sector, it was announced here Thursday.

FIVE years after Government decided to create a policy for black economic empowerment , the actual draft document is still waiting for the ruling Swapo Party leadership to give it the go-ahead, while the time frame of having it up and running this year with a tailor-made law in place has run out.

SWAPO'S Central Committee has effectively paved the way for Hage Geingob to succeed President Hifikepunye Pohamba, when he steps down.

On July 14, State President Nguyen Minh Triet met with the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Peoplea TMs Assembly of the Democratic Peoplea TMs Republic of Korea , Kim Yong Nam and Namibian Prime Minister Nahas Angula in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

Although electronic storage of information has many benefits, the fast pace at which technology develops can result in a loss of valuable information, said Prime Minister Nahas Angula.

By Eleanor Momberg The annual Namibian seal cull has been put on hold for two weeks, pending the possible sale of the seal industry to a South African seal rescue organisation.

A REPEATED rallying cry of former President Sam Nujoma after Independence in 1990 was that the second phase of Namibia's struggle for liberation is economic freedom.

Namibia's recently released second MDG Report 2008 finds that the country is making progress toward achieving some of the U.N. Millennium Development Goal targets.