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Six commit suicide over the weekend   THE Namibian Police are concerned about an increase in suicides, with a total of six bodies discovered over the weekend.   According to the weekend serious crime bulletin provided by the Public Relations Division of the Namibian Police, the youngest victim was a 17-year-old girl.   According to the report on 12 February 2021 at about 06:00 at Osisia village, a body of a female person identified as Maria Nawanga.     The body of the 17-year-old girl was...

FirstRand Namibia breathes life into the arts 2021-02-12    Staff Reporter The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has not discriminated and still does not do so. The lives and livelihoods of all and sundry have been affected and altered. There is consensus, though, that the creative industry bore the brunt of the impact of regulations imposed to curb the further spread of the virus. “Art is something that makes you breathe a different kind of happiness,” said Conrad Dempsey, CEO of FirstRand Na...

On most levels, Nepal and Namibia appear to have very little in common. Nepal is a landlocked Himalayan nation with an abundant supply of forests and water, while Namibia is a desert country about six times larger, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. People in Nepal rely primarily on subsistence agriculture and forests for their livelihoods, while people in Namibia mostly rely on grazing lands and livestock. Nepal was never colonized and remained closed to most outsiders until 1951. Na...

Your Faith Promise continues to bring change across the street and across the globe. Ursula, one of our missionaries based in Namibia, shared with us that their outreach leader, Vazandu, buys and distributes food in the remote villages of Kaokoland (Kunene region). One afternoon, he reached a Himba family at Oruhona village. They had accepted that they would be going to sleep hungry that night. How thankful they were when Vazandu arrived and blessed them with some basic food items! On another o...

, Updated 16 Feb 2021, 15:23 GMT Shipwreck Lodge offers 10 eco-cabins designed to look like washed-ashore boats, Skeleton Coast. Photograph by SHAWN VAN EEDEN Just metres away, a week-old lion cub creeps out from the shade and looks me straight in the eye. Above him, red rock stretches into a cyan sky; below him, the dusty expanse of the Hoanib riverbed. He inches out further before his mother uncurls from her afternoon siesta and plucks him up with her mouth and returns to their cave. In a nor...

Himba children and adults gathered inside of the church building for dedication service | Samaritans Purse Edward Graham, the grandson of the late evangelist Billy Graham, says shoeboxes filled with gifts are reaching more children and unreached people with the Gospel than the massive global evangelistic events his grandfather held over decades.  “More kids have heard about Christ through these shoebox distributions than ever heard about Christ in stadiums with my grandfather,” said Graha...

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Blue Waters Cricket Club (BWCC) 1 defeated Sparta 2 with 9 wickets in the final of the First Division T20 Coastal Cricket League at the Sparta Recreational Sports Club on Sunday 24 January 2021. Sparta 2 won the toss and elected to bat first. They scored 96 runs for the loss of 8 wickets off their 20 overs with Herman van Zyl their top batsman with 33 runs with Raynard van Zyl their best bowler as he bowled Zhivago Groenewald. Samson Chivi and Zhivago Groenewald did the work for BWCC 1 with a 9...

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...

. 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...