Namibia
Namibia detects 18 Omicron cases, destroys 150,000 expired jabs
Geingob called on citizens to get booster jabs after 18 Omicron cases were identified in the country, which neighbours South Africa where the variant was first...
South Africa earlier this week said it would not approve Sputnik V due to concerns it could increase the risk of HIV infection among men, a claim the vaccine's developer says is unfounded.
Fellow Namibian, 18-year-old Beatrice Masilingi, who finished sixth, also impressed by reaching the 200m final in her first major championships. But the presence of both women in Tuesday's race has reopened debate about track and field's complex rules regarding women born with elevated testosterone.
At parliamentary question time, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas acknowledged that over the years, there had been calls for reparations from countries including Greece and Poland over Nazi-era massacres.
Opposition MPs took turns to trash the $1.3-billion deal, accusing the government of sidelining them and the communities directly affected by the genocide during negotiations that reached agreement last month.
The southern African country's government started negotiations with its former coloniser Germany in 2015 over the 1904-1908 massacre of Herero and Nama people for rebelling against their rulers.
Many Namibians have rejected the outcome of more than five years of negotiations between their government and Germany over events in territory held by Berlin from 1884 to 1915.
"The acceptance on the part of Germany that a genocide was committed is the first step in the right direction."
German colonial settlers killed tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people in 1904-1908 massacres -- labelled the first genocide of the 20th century by historians -- poisoning relations between Namibia and Germany for years.
Last month, a Windhoek High Court threw out a bid by the couple, 38-year-old Phillip Luehl and his Mexican husband Guillermo Delgado, 36, to force the government to issue the documents. But a fresh court application on Monday saw the government backtrack.
The newborn twins are daughters of a Namibian-Mexican gay couple, and the Namibian authorities have dragged their feet on issuing documents for the girls born to a South African surrogate mother to travel to Windhoek.
Adolf Hitler Uunona, 54, a politician of the ruling Swapo party, was last week elected local government councillor for Ompundja constituency in northern Namibia, with 85% of the ballots cast.
The environment ministry said the elephants were being sold "due to drought and increase in elephant numbers coupled with human-elephant conflict incidences".
The unprecedented youth-led protest that began on social media, was quickly dispersed by police and the Special Reserve Force using teargas, rubber bullets and batons.
The semi-arid southern African country said the animals will come from Waterberg Plateau Park, a national reserve located in central Namibia.
Women photographers in Namibia have languished in obscurity, and scholarship that embraces this neglected history is only just emerging.
A polarising figure, Dirk Mudge’s opponents accused him of delaying Namibia’s independence from neighbour South Africa by setting up a 1975–77 national conference.
The announcement came despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases, which have almost tripled to over 6,000 this month.
Many Namibians have turned to natural remedies in the hope of protecting themselves against the viral disease, including the use of elephant dung.