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Namibians hail Obama win

Posted 6th November 2008 at 03:48 PM by TheNamibian
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NAMIBIANS yesterday joined people across the world in hailing the election of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States.

Countrywide, people stayed up all night or woke before dawn yesterday to watch US election history being made.

Enthusiasm for an Obama presidency is at a premium, but politicians and analysts cautioned yesterday that Namibians should remain realistic when it comes to expectations of what it will mean in...
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Poll Stayaway Negative Vote For Ruling Party

Posted 2nd November 2008 at 09:48 PM by NSHR
NSHR is not surprised by the remarkable disapproval of the ruling Swapo Party implicit in the massive voter stay away last Friday October 31 2008 in the Tobias Hainyeko Constituency by-election. Figures attributed to the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) show that a total of 24 825 residents have registered to vote in the said by-election. Statistics reportedly released by Swapo Party Secretary General Mme Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana also indicate that 24 855 residents had voter cards out of a total
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SADC admit power sharing document was fraudulently altered

Posted 31st October 2008 at 10:04 PM by NewsTracker (Tracking the News)
Updated 17th November 2008 at 10:06 PM by NewsTracker
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SADC Secretary General Tomaz Salomao has finally admitted the power sharing deal signed on the 15th September was fraudulently altered before the signing ceremony and different from the one agreed to by the parties on the 11th September.

The Tsvangirai MDC initially raised the concerns in an interview with Newsreel in early October, complaining that ZANU PF had doctored the agreement to alter certain clauses in the document that was to be signed a few days...
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Alarm About Intensified Ethnic Drive

Posted 26th October 2008 at 09:54 PM by NSHR
Namibia's National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) remains deeply alarmed by continuous intensification of deep-rooted racial hatred directed against the Ovakwanyama people of Namibia.

On October 22 2008 Office of the President Executive Director and former Ambassador Ndali-Ché Kamati expressed his frustration and dismay over what he inter alia described as an ongoing campaign of "ethnic political cleansing" to rid the ruling Swapo Party, the public service and the Office...
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21 Million-Dollar Office For Nujoma

Posted 21st October 2008 at 09:50 PM by NSHR
Updated 17th November 2008 at 09:51 PM by NSHR
Namibia’s National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) joins The Namibian newspaper and Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) as well as members of the general public in questioning both the wisdom and rationale behind yet another excessive and inexcusable expenditure in favor of former Namibian President Sam Nujoma. In an exposé last week, The Namibian reported in a lead article on October 17 2008 that Cabinet has approved nearly N$22 million in taxpayers’ money to build a luxurious new office for...
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