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The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, in collaboration with Namibia Wildlife Resorts (NWR), have announced that there is sufficient water in the Fish River Canyon for the upcoming hiking season in May. NWR spokesperson Nelson Ashipala said this in a press release on Friday. “We are pleased to announce that, following a thorough appraisal […]
Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters (NEFF) deputy leader Kalimbo Iipumbu and Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) lawmaker Hidipo Hamata are pushing for the parliament to discuss labour hire practices and to abolish them. This comes after Iipumbu recently submitted a motion in the parliament, asking that the National Assembly discuss and find solutions to these practices. Speaking […]
Students who graduated at the Namibia College of Open Learning (Namcol) in Windhoek yesterday were urged to embrace artificial intelligence (AI). “In today’s rapidly changing world, navigating new developments requires us to be smart. One such tool that requires you to be smart is AI,” education, arts and culture deputy minister Faustina Caley said during […]
A total of 2 243 students are due to graduate from the Namibia University of Science and Technology (Nust) this year, with women comprising 57% of graduates. Nust held a ceremony for the first batch of graduates in Windhoek on Thursday. Nust vice chancellor Erold Naomab said fields like commerce, human sciences and education are […]
At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides in Tanzania following heavy rains caused by El Niño, the prime minister has said. Kassim Majaliwa warned that the rains might continue into May, and urged families to leave flood-prone areas. About 200,000 people and more than 51,000 households were already affected by the disaster, […]
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 […]