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Executive director of gender equality, poverty eradication and social welfare Martha Mbombo has retired. Mbombo has been replaced by Nichlas Mbingeneeko, who filled the position on 1 June. This was confirmed by ministry spokesperson Lukas Haufiku on Monday afternoon. Mbombo, who was appointed at the Ministry of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare last […]
Former Roads Contractor Company (RCC) chief executive Kelly Nghixulifwa has been found guilty on four charges after a long-running trial in the Windhoek High Court. Judge Christie Liebenberg found Nghixulifwa guilty on two counts of fraud, a charge of corruptly using his position as chief executive of the state-owned RCC, and a further charge of […]
Two men, aged 75 and 92, are on Monday expected to appear before the Brits Magistrate’s Court facing charges of murder, North West police said. The slain victim was a 80-year-old man, according to North West police spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Amanda Funani. “The suspects were arrested in Jericho village outside Brits on Thursday, May 30. […]
The body of a woman (58) was found at an Otjimbingwe river bed on Sunday. Erongo police spokesperson chief inspector Ileni Shapumba says Frieda Rooi accompanied a man (24) to his place on Saturday, where they spent the night. The man claims he discovered that Rooi was unresponsive at about 06h00 on Sunday, the police […]
The writing has always been on the wall for the demise of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), political scientist Rui Tyitende says. This comes after the party failed to garner enough seats to form a government in last week’s national elections. Speaking to Desert Radio on Monday, Tyitende said the ANC’s journey to […]
Preparations for this year’s presidential and National Assembly elections are in full swing, with the Electoral Commission of Namibia rolling out a voters’ registration drive starting on Monday and running until 1 August. Namibians of voting age are encouraged to register to participate in November’s elections. Independent Patriots for Change presidential candidate Panduleni Itula on […]
China has accused UK’s Secret Intelligence Service MI6 of recruiting Chinese state employees as spies. In a post on its official WeChat channel, China’s Ministry of State Security said MI6 operatives turned a Chinese man identified only by his surname Wang and his wife surnamed Zhou against Beijing. Both worked in “core confidential” departments in […]
More than 50 people have died in India over the past three days as a brutal heat spell continues to grip parts of the country. Around 33 people died in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over the weekend due to the heat. In Odisha (Orissa) state, about 20 people died due to heat stroke, […]
Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win. Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday’s election. That gives her a lead of more than 30 percentage points over her main […]
A truck collided with a car and crashed into a house in the Narraville area of Walvis Bay on Sunday. The truck was driven by a 39-year-old Zambian man. According to Erongo police spokesperson chief inspector Ileni Shapumba, the lorry first collided head-on with a double-cab bakkie that was driven by a 54-year-old woman. It […]