Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner Friday of a disputed election with 54,27% of votes, beating his rival Raila Odinga who scored 44,74%, the election commission announced. “Having fulfilled the requirement by law… I therefore wish to declare Uhuru Kenyatta… as president elect,” said polls commission chairman Wafula Chebukati, as cheers and singing […]

The director of the Pan-African Institute for the Study of African Society, Bankie Forster Bankie, has died. Bankie was born on 1 January 1946 in England, and served in various judicial positions in Ghana and Botswana.

Tanzania could soon open a Mission in Namibia. That country’s new High Commissioner based in South Africa, Sylvester Mwakinyule Ambokile, revealed this when he presented his credentials to President Hage Geingob.

The DTA says it will host its own land policy conference next month. Its President McHenry Venaani told a media conference the aim is to draft the party’s land policy which would be tabled at the upcoming second national land conference.

The Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources Bernard Esau has cancelled the newly-introduced N$1 500 recreational fishing licence fee. The previous levy of N$14 has been re-introduced. Esau says there were no proper consultations in this regard from the side of stakeholders. This follows after the Ministry’s recent announcement of an increased amount N$1 500 […]

About 100 disgruntled employees of the financially crippled Road Contractor Company (RCC) have given Government until next Friday to pay their outstanding salaries. At least 400 RCC employees are yet to receive their salaries for July.

Eighty-two-year-old, Siegfried Paul Helmut Strzelecki, who was assaulted by three robbers at Swakopmund at the beginning of August, has died at the town on Thursday. Strzelecki was attacked and assaulted with his wife, Rosvietha Sieglinde Helmut Strzelecki, who was strangled to death in that attack during a housebreaking with intent to rob at their residence […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration has extended the phasing out of the old South West Africa identification cards.

Ivan Hoebeb has been found guilty for the murder of 26-year-old Elizabeth Ganses in an incident that took place about two years ago at Otjiwarongo.

The Shack Dwellers Federation received 1 068 serviced and unserviced plots from the Walvis Bay municipality. The Deputy Mayor of the harbour town, Hilka Erastus made the announcement during the handing over of a brick making machine recently.