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An important trial of the world’s first “personalised” mRNA vaccine against the deadliest form of skin cancer – melanoma – is now under way in the UK. Steve Young, 52, from Stevenage, Herts, who had a melanoma growth cut out of his scalp last August, is one of the first patients to try the shot. […]
For nearly three hours on Thursday, the Supreme Court weighed whether former presidents are immune from prosecution and what exactly it means if they are. Its answer will determine whether former President Donald Trump can be tried on charges of trying to subvert the 2020 election. Whatever the decision, each justice indicated that it would […]
The Northern Regional Electricity Distributor (Nored) hosted a memorial service for employee Ananias Iyambo (36) at Ongwediva on Thursday. Iyambo died at Okongo in the Ohangwena region after being electrocuted on duty on Saturday. He was attending to a power failure at the village. Shinana Shinana, the head of Nored Ongwediva’s technical department, said Iiyambo […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has cautioned his US counterpart Antony Blinken against stepping on China’s “red lines”, as the two country’s top diplomats met in Beijing on Friday. Mr Wang opened the meeting with a question which sounded more like a warning: “Should China and the United States keep to the right direction of […]
TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance says it has no intention of selling the business after the US passed a law to force it to sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in America. “ByteDance doesn’t have any plans to sell TikTok,” the company posted on its official account on Toutiao, a social media […]
Mines and energy minister Tom Alweendo has told local entrepreneurs “nobody owes them anything” and they should guard against a sense of entitlement in terms of the country’s natural resources. He was speaking during the Namibia International Energy Conference in Windhoek yesterday, where he also said Namibia will use countries that have been successful in […]
Swapo vice president Netumbo Nand-Ndaitwah has called on the party’s district and branch coordinators not to use drought-relief food assistance for positions. She was speaking at a party workshop for district coordinators and information and mobilisation officers yesterday. “We have to know at all times that we are deployed by Swapo, and we cannot come […]
About 72 000 out of roughly 85 000 children were born to unmarried parents in 2021. This means 84% of children registered with the Ministry of Home Affairs, Immigration, Safety and Security in that year were those of single parents. This was confirmed by the Namibia Vital Statistics Report, released by the Namibia Statistics Agency […]
… Kauandenge accuses former football bigwig of forging membership card Former Namibia Football Association (NFA) secretary general Barry Rukoro says the secretary general of the National Unity Democratic Organisation (Nudo), Joseph Kauandenge, is trying to isolate him from the party. This is because he feels threatened by him. At the centre of the issue is […]
Approximately 500 tonnes of polyethylene terephthalate will be processed per month at the recently inaugurated first plastic recycling plant, says minister of environment, forestry and tourism, Pohamba Shifeta. Shifeta said this during the inauguration ceremony of the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic recycling plant yesterday in Okahandja. The N$24 million joint venture is a commitment from […]