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Oshiwambo

Lineekela Mboti okuulikwa onga o Namibia’s Focal Point no  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) go African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)

Omupresident Netumbo Nandi Ndaitwah okuulike Amb Lineekela Josephat Mboti onga o Namibia’s Focal Point no  Chief Executive Officer (CEO) go African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) okuza mu 01 omwedhi nguka. Momushangwa okuza mombelewa yomupresident ohela,Nandi Ndaitwah okwa holola omukumoo mokuvula kwa Mboti oku nkondopeka ekuthombinga lya  Namibia mo  APRM noku yambulapo oshilalakanenwa shopapangelo shoshilongo. Mboti okuna otseyo oyindji miipambele yopashigwana,yuunadiplomate nepangelo,nokwa kwatela komeho o APRM Namibia Chapter okuza mo April […]

today12 September, 2025

World

Colombia allows military planes with US deportees to land

  The United States and Colombia have avoided a 'trade-war', after the South American nation agreed to allow its citizens deported from the US, to arrive in military planes. It follows a dramatic back and forth between Colombia's President and Donald Trump who threatened to impose significant trade sanctions and visa restrictions. Mitch McCann reports:  

today28 January, 2025

Environment

Tropical forests share similar mix of common and rare tree species, study shows

A flowering tree in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler By Liz Kimbrough via Mongabay A new study has for the first time identified the most common tree species in the tropical forests of Africa, the Amazon and Southeast Asia — and their similarities have surprised scientists. “The [study] shows some uncanny similarities among the world’s great tropical rainforests,” said tropical ecologist Bill Laurance, a co-author of […]

today1 February, 2024

Environment

Climate change made 2023 Amazon drought 30 times more likely, scientists say

The river that supplies water to the Kokama Indigenous People of the Porto Praia community was mostly dry in October of 2023. Image © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace. By Carla Ruas via Mongabay Global warming was the main driver of the severe drought that parched the Amazon River Basin in 2023. That is the alarming conclusion of a new report from World Weather Attribution (WWA), a team of international climate scientists […]

today29 January, 2024

Environment

Conservationists aim to save South America’s super tiny wild cat, the guina

Image courtesy of Jerry Laker/Fauna Australis. By Petro Kotzé via MongaBay For more than 200 million years, the ancient Valdivian Temperate Forest in southwestern Chile has been a refuge for plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth. This global biodiversity hotspot is home to monkey puzzle trees (Araucaria araucana), the endangered chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera), threatened southern pudu (Pudu puda) — the world’s smallest deer — and two critically endangered species: the […]

today23 January, 2024