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Zambezi regional police are on the hunt for eight of the 11 suspects who escaped from the Katima Mulilo police station holding cells on Monday. The escapees are both Namibian and Zambian nationals. Regional police spokesperson inspector Kisco Sitali confirmed the incident to The Namibian on Tuesday. He said the police had rearrested three suspects. […]
At least 39 people have been killed in Pakistan after days of unusually heavy rains battered the country’s southwest. Some of those killed were farmers struck by lightning while harvesting wheat, authorities said. Images online show swathes of farmland engulfed by rainwater. Flash floods have also disrupted power supplies and transportation networks. Pakistan has experienced […]
Most of the beds at the labour ward of Kihara Level 4 Hospital on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, are empty. Only three are occupied out of more than a dozen. A nurse says the hospital is not taking in women who need a Caesarean as there is no doctor to perform the […]
China’s economy made a stronger-than-expected start to the year, even as the crisis in its property sector deepened. According to official data, gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5.3% in the first three months of 2024, compared to a year earlier. That beat expectations the world’s second largest economy could see growth slow to 4.6% […]
Donald Trump’s unprecedented criminal trial has begun with half of a group of potential jurors ruled out within minutes on impartiality grounds. Mr Trump denies falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Sixty of 96 potential jurors were quick to say in the New York court that they could […]
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The government of Japan has funded 24 trilateral projects valued at US$17,2 million (N$320 million) since 2013 in Namibia, which were successfully implemented by various United Nations agencies. This was said by Hisao Nishimaki, Japanese ambassador to Namibia, when he launched the Japan supplementary budget funding joint project in Windhoek on Monday morning. “The two […]
The Bank of Namibia has given relief to banking institutions regarding regulatory reporting on cross-border Common Monetary Area (CMA) low-value transactions. According to the Exchange Control Circular No.2024/01, banking institutions are exempt from regulatory reporting requirements for cross-border CMA low-value transactions below N$1 million for individual clients and N$5 million for corporate clients. “The Bank […]
Japanese ambassador to Namibia Nishimaki Hisao says he is impressed by the way Namibia is improving its health system to the benefit of children and expectant mothers. He said this after touring the maternity ward at Rundu Intermediate Hospital in the Kavango East region with United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) representative Samuel Ocran and UN […]
State-owned railway company TransNamib has appointed Desmond van Jaarsveld as its new chief executive officer (CEO), replacing former CEO Johny Smith, who resigned from the company a year ago. TransNamib board chairman Theo Mberirua in a statement on Monday said Van Jaarsveld proved he is fit for the role for the current time and current […]