Namibia News

THE biggest challenge thousands of Namibians face today and tomorrow as they cast their votes in the fourth presidential and parliamentary elections is to what extent they will succeed in deepening the country's democracy, the group economics think tank of Standard Bank said yesterday.

WITH the parliamentary and presidential elections today and tomorrow, hype and obsession mounts by the day.

Gender activists foresee a drop in female parliamentarians after Namibia's general and presidential elections on November 27 and 28.

Campaigning in Namibia has been hit by legal rows ahead of polls on Friday. The National Society for Human Rights is going to court after the electoral commission withdrew its observer status, saying it was not impartial.

Namibia's longtime ruling party is expected to return to power in Friday elections but its hold on this desert nation may weaken with the emergence of a new opposition party.

All political party campaigning in Namibia will end tonight. The country will head to the polls on Friday and Saturday to choose a new president and members of parliament.

Namibian police have arrested a 25-year-old man whose vehicle almost crashed into the motorcade of former president Sam Nujoma in the northern town of Oshakati, reports said Wednesday.

Sitting comfortably in two open jeeps, my family, friends and I made our way to the lions.

Air Namibia-Ghana, has commenced direct flights from Accra to Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia .

The Electoral Commission of Namibia has banned a local human rights body, National Society for Human Rights , from observing and monitoring this weekenda's presidential and national assembly elections in the country.

A BITTER dispute between the widow and the former lawyer of the late German extradition target Hans Jurgen Koch made a return to the High Court this week, with Koch's widow scoring a courtroom win against her late husband's former attorney.

THE Rally for Democracy and Progress has accused Swapo Party vice president Hage Geingob of inciting political assassination.

Like parents everywhere, mothers and fathers in Namibia , an impoverished southern African nation, worry about college costs and opportunities for their children.

The U.S. Embassy in Windhoek reported violent clashes between rival political parties Nov.

Johannesburg - A South African pilot and a passenger were killed on Sunday when a light aircraft crashed after take off in Namibia, officials said.

A FUEL pump problem has been identified as the cause of a plane crash in which two French and two American tourists were injured in Windhoek in May last year.

OHORONGO yesterday secured nearly N$1 billion of the required N$2,5 billion to develop the country's only cement factory.

The European Investment Bank has provided a EUR 82 million grant towards the construction and operation of Ohorongo Cement factory, the countrya's first ever cement manu facturing plant.

DIVERSIFIED resources company Black Fire Minerals has snapped up the Karibib Lithium Pegmatite Project from Australian private company Sunrise Minerals in a deal worth about 455 000 Australian dollars.

THREE people were killed when a South African-registered aircraft which had taken off from Windhoek's Eros Airport on a flight to southern Angola crashed in the city early yesterday.