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Paradise Closing: Oil Drilling Begins in Okavango Delta   WINDHOEK, Namibia, February 1, 2021 (ENS) – The fate of one of Africa’s most valuable ecosystems will depend on results from wells being drilled deep into the bedrock beneath the Kalahari Desert of northern Namibia and Botswana in the hunt for a petroleum reservoir. If the search by Canadian oil and gas company ReconAfrica is successful, the region could be irrevocably transmogrified by networks of access roads, truck traffic and he...

) You won’t find this setup often - or possibly ever: A small-cap explorer sitting on a massive Permian basin that has potential for a major onshore conventional oil discovery.  And the drill bit just hit the ground in a three-well campaign… Because it’s a small-cap sitting on such a huge basin (8.5 million acres), its stocks are already soaring in anticipation of the first results, which are soon to be released.  Drilling started just over a week ago, and already the stock is superchar...

Namibia is selling the wild elephants, despite the outcry. Photo supplied The Namibian government will put 170 wild elephants up for sale today, 29 January, justified by false population statistics and disputed claims of human-elephant conflict. More than 100,000 people have signed a petition condemning the action… writes Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick. See petition here. The Namibian government says it has too many elephants and that the 170 are problem-causing animals. According to profession...

28 January 2021 | Crime HAPPIER TIMES: Bright Ndera and girlfriend Clodin Mutsvario with their daughter Mercy Hope Ndera. PHOTO: CONTRIBUTED CONNECTED: Police on Tuesday discovered the bodies of a 32-year-old Zimbabwean woman and her seven-month-old child. Photo: NBC Ester Kamati OTJIWARONGO The Otjozondjupa police has linked a Zimbabwean man who died in a head-on collision on Tuesday to the murder of a woman and her child - whose bodies were found a few kilometres down the same road. The 50-ye...

. The Namibian government says it has too many elephants and that the 170 are problem-causing animals. According to professional guide and conservationist Stephan Scholvin, about 90 are to be captured on former indigenous San ancestral lands which have been seized and distributed to political elites. They sold logging rights in the area to the Chinese, who have “completely decimated” the endangered African rosewoods.   With the government just emerging from a corruption scandal exposed by...

LIT LINE-UP: African stars Wizkid, Sheebah, Diamond Platnumz, Nasty C, Khaligraph Jones, Suspect 95, Soraia Ramos and Calema have been announced as the first performers for the virtual MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021. PHOTOS: CONTRIBUTED LIT LINE-UP: African stars Wizkid, Sheebah, Diamond Platnumz, Nasty C, Khaligraph Jones, Suspect 95, Soraia Ramos and Calema have been announced as the first performers for the virtual MTV Africa Music Awards Kampala 2021. PHOTOS: CONTRIBUTED STAFF REPOR...

Market Recap 26 Jan 2021 The local market was quiet this week, with the NSX Local index down 4% at 437, and the NSX Overall Index down 2.76% at 1249. As at 26 January Capricorn Group was the largest local company on the exchange, with market capitalization of N$ 6.7 billion, followed by Namibia Breweries with N$ 6.3 billion, FirstRand Namibia with N$ 6.2 billion and Trustco Group with N$ 4.8 billion. Standard Bank Namibia lead the market this week with growth of 6.62% to close at N$ 7.41 per sh...

MATHIAS HAUFIKU and OGONE TLHAGE There is currently no free land in Namibia because all of it is committed and the only way alternative land could become available is through re-classification of land use, the commission of inquiry into claims of ancestral land has found. The 15-man presidential panel, tasked with investigating ancestral land, has called on the government to embark on policy and legislative changes to effectively address the ancestral land question. The 797-page report, compile...

Zim Acts On Locust Outbreak January 25, 2021 Zimbabwe is mobilising resources to take adequate preventive measures following sightings of locusts that swept through parts of Namibia, hitting grasslands, trees and 50 000 hectares of crops recently. Mr Shingirai Nyamutukwa, head of the Plant Quarantine and Plant Protection Research Services Institute, said recently that his department was mobilising resources to carry out effective locust forecasting and management of locust outbreaks in three p...

POSTHUMOUS: Legendary Oliver Mtukudzis management has announced his new album. PHOTO: NAMPA/AP ALL AFRICA Oliver Mtukudzis management has confirmed that, Abiangu 2’, the album he was working on before his death, will be out this quarter. Now fans from across the world eagerly await new music from the late the legendary music icon popularly known as Tuku. When he passed on, his discography included 67 albums. During the course of his long career, Tuku took themes relevant to social issues of ...