Eight of the 10 regional branches of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party called for him to resign on Friday, state TV reported. “The province resolved unanimously to recall the president… from being the president of the party and the government,” said Cornelius Mupereri, a spokesman for the party’s Midlands region. He was one […]

Team Harambee took its campaign to the Oshana Region for a meeting with 264 delegates to the Swapo congress, on Thursday. As the congress fever sets in, so are the campaign strategies beefing up.

Tensions remain high in Zimbabwe. Some political analysts say there’s little appetite among African Union (AU) member states to help Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. At the same time, the AU has expressed concern about the army’s actions, and insists that it would never accept a military coup. It has called on Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party to […]

The City of Windhoek’s top officials were grilled by the Parliamentary watchdog on public accounts over their 2014/15 financial audit. According to the Auditor-General’s report, the City’s management failed to provide supporting documents for the year ended 30 June 2015, leading to the adverse audit opinion. The audit report in question indicates that the City, […]

The Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare wants to see women included in decision-making positions, at all levels. Doreen Sioka said this at the opening of a two-day conference on women in politics, at Swakopmund. Namibia ranks third on the African Gender Equality Index. The index which covered 52 of the 54 African countries […]

Namibia and the Russian Federation have signed a cooperation agreement on security. The agreement was signed at the seventh session of the inter-governmental committee on trade and economic cooperation, between Namibia and Russia, which was concluded in Windhoek this week. The summit was called to strengthen trade relations between the two countries in identified areas […]

A group of foreign journalists, including a news crew from the NBC, were denied entry into Zimbabwe on Thursday. NBC’s Chief Reporter, Jefta Tjihumino and senior Camera Operator, Hadley Mwashekeleh, were among six other journalists from Britain and China who were denied entry by immigration officials at the Harare International airport. The journalists obtained the […]

Swakop Uranium employees are demanding management to put in place a proper salary structure at the company. The workers claimed that there are huge differences in the remuneneration structure at the company despite that workers performing work of equal value.

An ambulance driver was again arrested for poaching with a Government emergency vehicle in the Zambezi Region. This was his third arrest for the same charge.

The African Union Youth Club has been launched to assist the AU in its quest to involve the continent’s youth in its programmes.