Namibia

A STUDY on the upside-down, airborne transportation of rhinoceroses conducted in Namibia is among the top winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prize awards. The Ig Nobel Prize is a satirical prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate 10 unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research, with the aim to…

DESPITE dining with president Hage Geingob following their brave performance at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, Paralympians are still not impressed with the treatment they receive from the government in comparison to their able-bodied compatriots. The president on Wednesday hosted a dinner to honour the Paralympians after their return from…

INFORMATION received from the police in the Netherlands and Australia set Namibian detectives on the trail of Windhoek resident Johann Maree, who is charged with committing numerous sex crimes with underage boys and selling child pornography to paedophiles on the internet. This was conveyed to magistrate Celma Amadhila when Namibian…

As the country is slowly opening up, Tsumeb will be treated to a night of good Jazz sounds tomorrow. The first-ever festival will be held at Lilly's Pub in the heart of the copper town. Tickets are going for N$150 in advance, while a N$250 fee is payable at the…

THE company Namibian Marine Phosphate's controversial plan to carry out seabed mining off the Namibian coast has received another setback, with a High Court judge finding that the company did not correctly apply for an environmental clearance certificate which it needed to commence test mining and mining. In a judgement…

Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images Namibian sprinters Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi have been ruled ineligible for the Tokyo Olympics by the World Athletics organization. Per an official statement from the Namibian Olympic Committee, Mboma and Masilingi have been deemed ineligible to compete because they have naturally high testosterone levels that are above the threshold…

The 18-year-old 400m sensation Christine Mboma will be barred from the event at the Tokyo Olympics due to elevated testosterone levels, Namibia’s National Olympic Committee said on Friday. READ | NO SPACE FOR LIVERPOOL ACE MO SALAH IN EGYPT’S TOKYO OLYMPICS SQUAD Christine Mboma ran the seventh fastest women’s one-lap time…

NewsSix Associate nations - Malaysia, Namibia, Oman, Scotland, the UAE and the USA - have also submitted proposals Security concerns forced Pakistan to miss out on hosting the 2008 Champions Trophy and the 2011 World Cup  AFPSeventeen member nations have put themselves forward as potential hosts for eight men's white-ball…

Hong Kong on Wednesday reported three imported Covid-19 cases – from Namibia, Cyprus and Ghana. All of them carry the potentially more contagious L452R variant of the coronavirus. The Centre for Health Protection said one of the patients, a 53-year-old man who returned from Namibia, had received two doses of…

Only Namibia, the Seychelles, Tunisia and Mongolia now rank above our nation, according to latest data - less than a week before restrictions are lifted Case rates are surging in the Seychelles (Image: Valery Sharifulin/TASS) Just four 'red list' countries have a higher daily Covid infection rate than Britain, current…