OTJIWARONGO: Delegates to the Otjozondjupa Swapo-Party regional elective conference elected Susan Hikopua as the region’s coordinator here yesterday.

Hikopua has been acting in that position for over a year now.

Otjozondjupa Regional Governor Rapama Kamehozu was elected as regional mobiliser, while Julius Nauyoma Neumbo was re-elected as treasurer. The three will serve Swapo in the region for the next five years.

Participants to the regional conference came from all seven districts here – Otjiwarongo, Omatako, Okakarara, Okahandja, Otavi, Grootfontein and Tsumkwe. The elections took place under the watchful eyes of the party’s national leaders assigned to the region.

2 (South Africa) – Namibian national Uakereraije Maunda has received a suspended sentenced for his role in a R100 million airport hesit in 2006, according a report today. Maunda told the Sowetan newspaper that it was tough being in jail and he does not want to see himself there ever again.

He was one of the nine people arrested and convicted for the R100 million OR Tambo International Airport heist that took place in 2006. He was found in possession of US19,000 of the stolen millions in cash. His explanation in court was that he was given the money by his late uncle, Tjinduda Uakotoka, who had been arrested for the robbery but died soon afterwards.

Maunda was given a five-year suspended sentence, and he spent six years in jail awaiting trial.

3 (MOGADISHU) – Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents have executed three members for spying for Western intelligence agencies, officials said today. Two of the men were accused of having in January attached a satellite tracker device to a car used by Al-Qaeda operatives, which was later struck by a missile, killing two.

Sheikh Abdalla Al-Haq, the Shebab’s chief judge, said the three defendants were found guilty of spying…one of them worked for the British intelligence agency MI6 and the two others were spying for the CIA.

The three men, aged between 25 and 30 according to witnesses, were shot by firing squad in a public execution in the port town of Merka late yesterday. Al-Haq said all of them confessed to the charges against them, and the punishment is death.

4 (ATHENS) – Greek authorities say two people were killed when a bus crashed into a gully and caught fire on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Chios. The fire brigade says six people have been rescued from the wreckage of the vehicle.

It was not immediately clear whether they were injured, and how many people had been on the bus. Police said the vehicle veered off the road into a 10-meter (30-foot) gully this morning, catching fire.

Twenty firefighters with 10 water trucks rushed to the scene to free the survivors and extinguish the blaze, which spread through low brush.

5 (BAGHDAD) – A spate of attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital killed at least 45 people today, security and medical officials said, in an updated toll of earlier attacks. At least 112 people were wounded in the shootings and bombings, totalling more than a dozen separate attacks, some of which involved coordinated explosions, shattering a relative calm in recent weeks.

The deadliest attack struck the town of Taji, just north of Baghdad, where 18 people were killed and 29 wounded in a series of explosions. All of the attacks were either in Baghdad or north of the capital.

(edited)HERE IS TODAY’S BULLETIN FOR 10H00 MONDAY, 23 JULY 2012
NAMIBIA PRESS AGENCY

1 (OTJIWARONGO) – Delegates to the Otjozondjupa Swapo-Party regional elective conference elected Susan Hikopua as the region’s coordinator here yesterday. Hikopua has been acting in that position for over a year now.

Otjozondjupa Regional Governor Rapama Kamehozu was elected as regional mobiliser, while Julius Nauyoma Neumbo was re-elected as treasurer. The three will serve Swapo in the region for the next five years.

Participants to the regional conference came from all seven districts here – Otjiwarongo, Omatako, Okakarara, Okahandja, Otavi, Grootfontein and Tsumkwe. The elections took place under the watchful eyes of the party’s national leaders assigned to the region.

2 (South Africa) – Namibian national Uakereraije Maunda has received a suspended sentenced for his role in a R100 million airport hesit in 2006, according a report today. Maunda told the Sowetan newspaper that it was tough being in jail and he does not want to see himself there ever again.

He was one of the nine people arrested and convicted for the R100 million OR Tambo International Airport heist that took place in 2006. He was found in possession of US19,000 of the stolen millions in cash.

His explanation in court was that he was given the money by his late uncle, Tjinduda Uakotoka, who had been arrested for the robbery but died soon afterwards. Maunda was given a five-year suspended sentence, and he spent six years in jail awaiting trial.

3 (MOGADISHU) – Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab insurgents have executed three members for spying for Western intelligence agencies, officials said today. Two of the men were accused of having in January attached a satellite tracker device to a car used by Al-Qaeda operatives, which was later struck by a missile, killing two.

Sheikh Abdalla Al-Haq, the Shebab’s chief judge, said the three defendants were found guilty of spying…one of them worked for the British intelligence agency MI6 and the two others were spying for the CIA.

The three men, aged between 25 and 30 according to witnesses, were shot by firing squad in a public execution in the port town of Merka late yesterday. Al-Haq said all of them confessed to the charges against them, and the punishment is death.

4 (ATHENS) – Greek authorities say two people were killed when a bus crashed into a gully and caught fire on the eastern Aegean Sea island of Chios. The fire brigade says six people have been rescued from the wreckage of the vehicle.

It was not immediately clear whether they were injured, and how many people had been on the bus. Police said the vehicle veered off the road into a 10-meter (30-foot) gully this morning, catching fire.

Twenty firefighters with 10 water trucks rushed to the scene to free the survivors and extinguish the blaze, which spread through low brush.

5 (BAGHDAD) – A spate of attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital killed at least 45 people today, security and medical officials said, in an updated toll of earlier attacks.

At least 112 people were wounded in the shootings and bombings, totalling more than a dozen separate attacks, some of which involved coordinated explosions, shattering a relative calm in recent weeks.

The deadliest attack struck the town of Taji, just north of Baghdad, where 18 people were killed and 29 wounded in a series of explosions. All of the attacks were either in Baghdad or north of the capital.