KEETMANSHOOP: The body of an unknown man was retrieved from the Orange River yesterday. It was discovered by a passerby floating near the Amanzi River Trails in the Noordoewer settlement at about 09h30. The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) Chief Inspector Niikodemus Nampala told Nampa today that the unknown man is black in complexion, is 1.6 metres tall and was wearing a white T-shirt.
Police then called on residents of Noordoewer and the Karas Region to come forth and identify the body. Nampala said those who have lost a family member, friend or a colleague should go to the Noordoewer Police Station to see if they know the dead man. (NAMPA) PKs/ND 2 (WINDHOEK, 30 JUL NAMPA) – Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) handed over bursaries to six final-year students today. The bursaries, worth N.dollars 500 000, will cover various fields of study ranging from a Bachelor of Technology in Electronic Engineering, to Computer Science and Information Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications, and Marketing.
The beneficiaries include University of Namibia (Unam) students Aksel Thele and Matheus Shindi; Anne-Lee Izaacks, Asser Iyambo and Agrippine Amupolo from the Polytechnic of Namibia (PoN) and Rose Limbo, who studies at Rhodes University in South Africa. Speaking at the handing-over, Minister of Education, Dr Abraham Iyambo said it is time for Namibia to reflect as a country in order to establish whether capacity has been built in preparation for Vision 2030. He said Vision 2030 is about people, adding that if they do not build capacity, the country will not build Namibia by the year 2030.
The minister noted that there is a need for Namibia to accelerate the process of building capacity and do it differently before the year 2030. (NAMPA) ER/AS/ND 3 (JOHANNESBURG AP) – A legal aid group says a court in Namibia has ruled that the government there sterilized three women infected with HIV without getting proper consent. The Southern Africa Litigation Centre said today that the Namibia High Court ruling will see monetary damages awarded to the three women affected. The center said the court ruling found the government forced women into agreeing to the procedure while they were in severe pain or in labor.
The lawsuit, filed in 2010, comes as activists say that other HIV-infected women have been coerced into being sterilized. UNAIDS estimates there are some 180,000 people living with HIV in Namibia, a country of 2.1 million people. Sterilization is a drastic tactic to treat HIV-positive women, as mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS can be prevented with medication. AP 4 (KANO, Nigeria, July 30 AFP) – Explosions, including a suicide blast, rocked two police stations today in Nigeria’s northwestern city of Sokoto, the historic seat of Islam in the country, police and residents said.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, responsible for scores of deadly bombings in recent months, are suspected of having hideouts in Sokoto, but the group has rarely attacked within the city. A senior police officer, who requested anonymity, said a suicide bomber approached the Yan Marina police station in the centre of the city in a car packed with explosives. According to the officer, the bomber was denied entry at the security gate, where the vehicle blew up.
A resident near the station, Usman Bube, said the area was engulfed in flames. 5 – A fire swept through a train car packed with sleeping passengers in southern India today, killing at least 32 people and sending panicked survivors rushing for the only clear exit once the train stopped, officials said. Investigators found charred remains of victims still in their sleeping berths and were struggling to identify them. A railway station worker noticed the burning coach as the overnight train from New Delhi to the southeastern city of Chennai passed through the town of Nellore at about 4 a.m., local official B. Sridhar said. Once the alarm was raised, the train was stopped and the coach was detached from the rest of the train to prevent the blaze from spreading. Passengers were evacuated once the train was halted.
(edited)HERE IS TODAY’S BULLETIN FOR 15H00 MONDAY, 30 JULY 2012 NAMIBIA PRESS AGENCY 1 (KEETMANSHOOP, 30 JUL NAMPA) – The body of an unknown man was retrieved from the Orange River yesterday. It was discovered by a passerby floating near the Amanzi River Trails in the Noordoewer settlement at about 09h30.
The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) Chief Inspector Niikodemus Nampala told Nampa today that the unknown man is black in complexion, is 1.6 metres tall and was wearing a white T-shirt. Police then called on residents of Noordoewer and the Karas Region to come forth and identify the body. Nampala said those who have lost a family member, friend or a colleague should go to the Noordoewer Police Station to see if they know the dead man. (NAMPA) PKs/ND 2 (WINDHOEK, 30 JUL NAMPA) – Mobile Telecommunications Limited (MTC) handed over bursaries to six final-year students today.
The bursaries, worth N.dollars 500 000, will cover various fields of study ranging from a Bachelor of Technology in Electronic Engineering, to Computer Science and Information Technology, Electronics and Telecommunications, and Marketing. The beneficiaries include University of Namibia (Unam) students Aksel Thele and Matheus Shindi; Anne-Lee Izaacks, Asser Iyambo and Agrippine Amupolo from the Polytechnic of Namibia (PoN) and Rose Limbo, who studies at Rhodes University in South Africa.
Speaking at the handing-over, Minister of Education, Dr Abraham Iyambo said it is time for Namibia to reflect as a country in order to establish whether capacity has been built in preparation for Vision 2030. He said Vision 2030 is about people, adding that if they do not build capacity, the country will not build Namibia by the year 2030.
The minister noted that there is a need for Namibia to accelerate the process of building capacity and do it differently before the year 2030. (NAMPA) ER/AS/ND 3 (JOHANNESBURG AP) – A legal aid group says a court in Namibia has ruled that the government there sterilized three women infected with HIV without getting proper consent. The Southern Africa Litigation Centre said today that the Namibia High Court ruling will see monetary damages awarded to the three women affected.
The center said the court ruling found the government forced women into agreeing to the procedure while they were in severe pain or in labor. The lawsuit, filed in 2010, comes as activists say that other HIV-infected women have been coerced into being sterilized. UNAIDS estimates there are some 180,000 people living with HIV in Namibia, a country of 2.1 million people. Sterilization is a drastic tactic to treat HIV-positive women, as mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS can be prevented with medication.
Explosions, including a suicide blast, rocked two police stations today in Nigeria’s northwestern city of Sokoto, the historic seat of Islam in the country, police and residents said. Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, responsible for scores of deadly bombings in recent months, are suspected of having hideouts in Sokoto, but the group has rarely attacked within the city.
A senior police officer, who requested anonymity, said a suicide bomber approached the Yan Marina police station in the centre of the city in a car packed with explosives. According to the officer, the bomber was denied entry at the security gate, where the vehicle blew up. A resident near the station, Usman Bube, said the area was engulfed in flames.
A fire swept through a train car packed with sleeping passengers in southern India today, killing at least 32 people and sending panicked survivors rushing for the only clear exit once the train stopped, officials said. Investigators found charred remains of victims still in their sleeping berths and were struggling to identify them.
A railway station worker noticed the burning coach as the overnight train from New Delhi to the southeastern city of Chennai passed through the town of Nellore at about 4 a.m., local official B. Sridhar said. Once the alarm was raised, the train was stopped and the coach was detached from the rest of the train to prevent the blaze from spreading. Passengers were evacuated once the train was halted.