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Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah flew to Tanzania for two days of official meetings. Foreign Minister Mohamed Kombo welcomed her at Julius Nyerere International Airport when she arrived. President Samia Hassan later hosted the Namibian leader at State House for private talks. The women...

Japanese cars dominate Namibian roads as buyers choose reliable brands over expensive options. Toyota leads all competitors with 683 cars sold during April alone. The company grabbed 54.9 percent of total vehicle sales across the country. Japanese automakers sold 772 vehicles total and captured...

Car sales jumped across Namibia during April as buyers purchased 1,243 new vehicles. The numbers show a big gain from last year, when only 904 cars were sold during the same month. Sales grew 37.5 percent compared to April 2024, according to Simonis Storm's research data. March sales reached...

A court told the Namibian Defence Force to let Joel Jacob join their May training program. Judge Gerson Narib made this decision on Thursday at Windhoek High Court. The military had removed the 19-year-old from their recruitment list. Jacob went to court after officials left him out of the...

A cattle farmer from Kavango West wants better ways to stop thieves. Winni Metzger runs 800 cattle and just lost 20 animals to theft. Criminals cut off the ear tags and put new ones on the stolen animals. The current tracking system does not work well enough. Metzger believes the government...

Courts charged Charles Twine Mansio with serious crimes at Buganda Road on Thursday. Twine worked as the main spokesperson for police investigators before moving to Parliament. Officials also charged Mitala Noah, who goes under the name Noah Mutwe. Both men face eight criminal counts for...

Police brought Charles Twine to Buganda Road Court on Thursday after his family spent days searching for him. Twine used to speak for the Criminal Investigations Directorate before taking a job at Parliament. Prosecutors say he spread harmful messages about Ugandan leaders using his computer...

Uganda Civil Aviation Authority will run a practice emergency drill at Entebbe International Airport on Friday. Aviation officials and rescue teams will work together during the exercise. The drill tests how well airport staff respond to dangerous situations. International rules require airports...

Equity Bank brought more than 40 foreign investors to Uganda for business meetings after finishing similar work with Tanzania. The visitors came from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. Private companies, development groups, and money managers want to find new opportunities to invest. Dr...

Uganda asked Tanzania to let diplomats visit jailed reporter Agather Atuhaire. Ambassador Fred Mwesigye sent official papers on May 22 requesting permission to see the journalist. Atuhaire sits locked up at Central Police Station in Dar es Salaam. Uganda wants to know why Tanzania arrested her...

Foreign business leaders arrived at the Four Points Sheraton for the Equity Investor Trade Mission. More than 40 delegates came from different countries to explore opportunities. They represent manufacturing companies, mining firms, agriculture businesses, oil companies, and tourism groups. The...

Police reopened the case against former officer Nickson Agasirwe after a killer confessed. Daniel Kisseka Kiwanuka admitted to helping murder prosecutor Joan Kagezi back in 2015. Kiwanuka told judges that a man called Nickson drove around town using a white government car and gave orders...

Kenya sent angry letters to Tanzania about activist Boniface Mwangi's imprisonment. The Kenyan government wants to visit Mwangi or have him freed immediately. Tanzania broke international law when it refused to tell Kenya where Mwangi was being held. Officials from Kenya say Tanzania must follow...

Bank of Uganda picked Equity Bank Uganda as a special kind of bank for the third year running. The country calls these banks Domestic Systemically Important Banks because they matter a lot to the money systems. Banks that crash could hurt the whole country's economy. Equity Bank passed tough...

Ugandan banks help more people buy insurance coverage. The country earned 1.6 trillion shillings from insurance sales last year, compared to 1.44 trillion shillings the year before. Banks team up with insurance companies to sell policies through their branches. This partnership made 179.48...

East African rights groups are angry about two activists stuck behind bars. Tanzania authorities are holding Ugandan reporter Agather Atuhaire and Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi without clear reasons. The government refuses to say where they are being kept or why. Human rights workers want both...

Xiaomi built their new XRING 01 chip using advanced technology from TSMC. The company packed 19 billion tiny switches into a small space. This smart design helped them save money during production. The chip takes up less room than most competitors. Engineers made careful choices about size and...

SWE Benchmark represents a groundbreaking way to test how well AI language models can handle real software engineering tasks. This evaluation system gives AI models actual coding problems from real software projects and measures whether they can solve them correctly. The benchmark uses thousands...

Anthropic launched two new AI models, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. The company built special safety tools to prevent people from making dangerous weapons with these programs. Opus 4 works best for writing computer code and handling tough jobs, while Sonnet 4 helps developers with daily...

A tester spent 48 hours evaluating Claude Opus 4 after Anthropic released the new AI model. The person focused on testing reasoning abilities and tool integration features. Opus 4 can think about each step when using external tools like Gmail and Todoist. Previous Claude versions could not...