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The UK turned down South African opposition leader Julius Malema's visa request, stopping him from speaking at a Cambridge University event on May 10. Malema leads the Economic Freedom Fighters party. He called the visa denial unfair. He thinks officials want to block his political views...

Four men must pay $7,700 each or spend a year behind bars for trying to smuggle over 5,000 queen ants from Kenya. The group - two Belgian teens, a Vietnamese man, and a Kenyan local - packed the insects into test tubes with cotton wool. Officials found rare giant African harvester ants worth up...

CSOs working with Early Childhood Development feel hopeful about the new ECD Bill. They believe it will fix many problems in early education and help Malawi reach its 2063 goals. The bill wants to create a separate ministry just for ECD, similar to what Botswana has done. The proposed law aims...

Old Mutual gave a new classroom building worth K115 million to Katete school in Rumphi. The school can teach all primary grades with these rooms instead of just grades one through six. Children used to walk far away for the upper classes, but can stay closer to home. Trust chairman Tawonga Manda...

A citizens' group claims that top people near the president create fuel shortages by blocking payments to suppliers. Malawi owes $72 million for fuel, way above its credit limit, which stops trucks from delivering gas. Long lines form at pumps everywhere as cars run dry. Some companies have fuel...

Students packed Bunda Campus for the NBM Mo626 College Social Weekend. The school grounds turned into a music party where young people made friends across different colleges. Top stars kept everyone dancing all night long. Patience Namadingo sang his hits Tuli and Maury as crowds sang along...

Medical leaders found the health office in Mangochi guilty of neglect after a patient died without ambulance service. This comes right after singer Patience Namadingo tried to fix broken ambulances but faced paperwork hurdles from local officials. The council wanted him to write formal plans...

India attacked Pakistan on Wednesday, hitting what it called terror bases across Pakistan. The military named it Operation Sindoor after 26 people died last month in Indian Kashmir. India says Pakistan helped those killers. Pakistan denies any part in those deaths. Pakistan reports that eight...

AMD released its Adrenalin 25.5.1 driver with eight new games supporting FSR 4 upscaling. These games can run faster with better graphics on Radeon RX 9000 cards. The update brings better Fluid Motion Frames with less ghosting for RX 6000 series cards. It adds support for Doom: The Dark Ages and...

UNESCO added the Windhoek Press Freedom Paper to its Memory of the World list for helping democracy worldwide. The recognition saves these ideas for later generations. Gwen Lister, who chaired the 1991 meeting that created it, spoke about its importance yesterday in Brussels. She said many...

Political expert Sakaria Johannes worries about Namibia naming more women to top jobs than men. He thinks former diamond company leader Inge Zaamwani-Kamwi might not deserve her new agriculture minister job. He says women should earn positions through skills rather than gender. President...

Young leaders say the Walvis Bay town leaders fail at basic jobs like trash pickup. Their group planned a protest, but nobody showed up. Patricia Munyala heads the youth forum that spoke about dirty streets, bad water pipes, and unsafe roads. She thinks officials ignore these problems even...

Two kids died after a family ate pap with fresh beans from their field last Thursday. Four children became sick along with their father, Andreas Kasera, who remains in critical care at Rundu State Hospital. The mother prepared food using drought relief supplies mixed with beans they grew...

China promises to stand for fairness during trade talks with America this weekend. Both countries will meet for the first time since Trump added heavy taxes on Chinese goods. The US slapped 145% fees on items from China after Trump returned to office, and China hit back with 125% charges on...

German leader Friedrich Merz plans a trip to Ukraine soon, he said during his Paris visit with French President Emmanuel Macron. He hopes to help create lasting peace after the fighting stops this weekend. Merz wants America to keep supporting Ukraine despite Donald Trump making deals with...

San students push toward college with hopes of helping their home areas. Petrus Askoek, 26, from Tsjaka Ben Hur in Omaheke, earned his junior primary education diploma from the University of Namibia. He finished at the Keetmanshoop campus despite many hardships. He went back to teach the...

Two farm workers heard their fate yesterday after Judge Naomi Shivute found them guilty of killing their employers. The court convicted Bernadus Afrikaner and Salathuel Unaeb for murdering Armin and Brunhild Riedel at their Gobabis farm in January 2018. The judge also ruled that they burned the...

The Namibian labor officials took back more than N$2 million for workers whose bosses withheld their pay last year. These collections helped 3,317 employees who filed complaints about missing wages between April 2024 and March 2025. Many companies failed to pay overtime, holiday work, or made...

The World Bank wants Namibia to use a full online buying system for better openness. Money expert Devesh Mishra thinks Namibia's current web tools fall short because almost nobody uses them. He spoke at a review meeting about buying methods in Windhoek on Thursday. Mishra believes going digital...

Wildlife Travel Group NWR started giving card members camping price cuts at all its sites on May 7, 2025. These deals come through its NamLeisure program, which used to offer savings just for rooms inside lodges. People from Namibia save 40 percent, those from nearby countries save 30 percent...