Namibia News

WINDHOEK, February 15 - The Southern African Development Community should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic partnership agreement with the European Union from destroying its regional ... via Inter Press Service

“I am pleased to be in Windhoek, to complete with my Namibian counterpart, a task that we began in April 2006, when we met to discuss the acquisition of land in Namibia by Botswana for the development of a dry port facility in the Port of Walvis Bay”

WINDHOEK: A memorandum of understanding was signed on Friday between the governments of Namibia and Botswana on the implementation of a dry port facility at Walvis Bay. via Mmegi

“These are the new pump prices and they come into effect at one past midnight on Friday 15 February”

FUEL prices will on Friday go up for the first time this year, with diesel increasing by a whopping 32 cents while petrol goes up by 22 cents a litre. via AllAfrica.com

From the far north to the deep south of Namibia, rains drenched most of the country over the past weekend. via AllAfrica.com

Mozambican authorities warned Tuesday that flooding will worsen in southern Africa when a major dam on its borders opens its floodgates and the desert country of Namibia counts the toll of floods in its ... via PR-inside.com

“We are very aware of the plight of the poor, and we are looking into the possibility to introduce a national water tariff”

The Namibian government, frequently accused of making water unaffordable to the poor, is finally taking steps to address this countrywide problem that threatens to hamper the country's efforts to meet the eight ... via Inter Press Service

“No, it is just because I was confused where to put them.”

THE murder case against Kenyan nurse Kenneth Bunge Orina, who is accused of butchering his wife at Grootfontein last year, was yesterday postponed again for further investigation. via AllAfrica.com

“It has been realized however that there is need to extend the prevention strategies to include HIV-positive people.”

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Article Date: 03 Feb 2008 - 0:00 PST newsletters Namibia, Kenya and Tanzania plan to launch the pilot phases of an initiative that aims to promote HIV prevention and care strategies ... via Medical News Today

AT 15,25 per cent, the lending rate of commercial banks is too high and must be adjusted, the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Namibia said in Windhoek yesterday. via AllAfrica.com

“It shows a level of indiscipline that just cannot be tolerated”

NAMIBIA's aviation safety authorities have grounded all the aircraft of the aviation company that owned the aeroplane that crashed in Windhoek with the loss of six lives three weeks ago. via AllAfrica.com

THE Bicycling Empowerment Network Namibia was started in 2005 to provide bicycles for HIV-AIDS homebased care volunteers who often need to cover long distances in their areas. via AllAfrica.com

“I. Games", the Judge heard. Yet another payment by cheque was similarly reflected in Dresselhaus Scrap's general ledger as having been for "copper purchases", with the name "Camm”

A MONEY and copper trail started emerging in the Telecom scrap copper fraud and corruption trial in the High Court in Windhoek yesterday. via The Namibian

“We will repeat the warning three days before the date and again 24 hours before”

NAMPOWER has warned that forced load shedding and time-of-use tariffs for electricity usage at peak times are inevitable. via The Namibian

SHORTLY after I started writing my column on a weekly basis, I had a fiery exchange with a politician arguing the case why they should communicate written views in the media. via The Namibian

“The stadiums may have all the most wonderful generators in the world to broadcast the games, but will people come to South Africa to see them if they know they will be going back to hotels and guest houses with no power?”

'We have to ask ourselves honestly if we can still do this' SOUTH Africa might not be able to host the 2010 World Cup because of current power cuts. via The Daily Dispatch

“We really want to have an answer now. We want to know who shot him, who gave the orders, and why this was done”

THE unpunished murder of prominent lawyer and Swapo member Anton Lubowski in the run-up to Namibia's Independence election in 1989 is set to return to the agenda of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority ... via The Namibian

“NamPower appeals to its customers and the public at large to reduce their electricity usage by about 20 percent to minimise load shedding”

NamPower has warned that forced power cuts and time-of-use tariffs for electricity usage at peak times are inevitable, the Namibian online newspaper reported on Wednesday. via Independent Online

“Looking at the party manifestos, [...] perhaps Namibians are even more extravagant than the Americans, in the sense that they are presented with nine parties to choose from, but their policies are not significantly different.”

THE plural, multiparty character of Namibia's political system constitutionally established at Independence has contrasted since then with the lack of substantive political-ideological differences among the ... via The Namibian