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...
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Namibia halts use of Sputnik jabs after Sahpra HIV fears
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.
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Namibian medallist reopens athletics 'intersex' debate
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.
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Germany rejects reparations call from Namibia
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.
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Namibia MPs dub genocide deal with Germany 'apartheid'
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.
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Germany genocide offer accepted by Namibia 'not enough': govt
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.
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Namibians slam 'disrespectful' deal over German genocide
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.
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Namibia: Germany's genocide recognition is a 'step in right direction'
"The acceptance on the part of Germany that a genocide was committed is the first step in the right direction."
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Germany says it committed genocide in Namibia during colonial rule
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.
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Namibia allows gay couple's surrogate twins to enter
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.
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Gay couple fights Namibia govt over surrogate newborns
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.
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What's in a name?: 'Adolf Hitler' wins vote in Namibia
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.
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Namibia to sell 170 live elephants
The environment ministry said the elephants were being sold "due to drought and increase in elephant numbers coupled with human-elephant conflict incidences".
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Namibian anti-femicide protesters met with teargas
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.
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Drought forces Namibia to auction 100 buffalo
The semi-arid southern African country said the animals will come from Waterberg Plateau Park, a national reserve located in central Namibia.
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Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography
Women photographers in Namibia have languished in obscurity, and scholarship that embraces this neglected history is only just emerging.
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Namibia Apartheid politician turned independence advocate dies of COVID-19
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.
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Namibia to resume international tourism from 1 September
The announcement came despite a recent spike in coronavirus cases, which have almost tripled to over 6,000 this month.
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Namibians warned not to use elephant dung to ward off virus
Many Namibians have turned to natural remedies in the hope of protecting themselves against the viral disease, including the use of elephant dung.
