# Finansiële insluiting onder Namibiese volwassenes het verlede jaar tot 86-persent gestyg vanaf 78-persent in 2017. Die Namibiese Statistiek-agentskap se Namibiese Finansiële Insluitingsopname toon 81,5-persent van volwassenes gebruik nou erkende finansiële dienste. Die getal volwassenes wat geld leen, het egter verlede jaar tot 49,0-persent gestyg, teenoor 42,1-persent in 2017. Woordvoerder Mirjam Shihepo sê daar is […]
# Die aantal bevestigde Ebola-gevalle in die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo het tot twee-duisend-536 gestyg, insluitend een-duisend-en-33 sterftes. Die land se Openbare Gesondheidsinstituut sê in sy jongste verslag 50 nuwe gevalle is Maandag in die oostelike provinsies Ituri en Noord-Kivu opgespoor. ‘n Uitbreking het nog nooit tevore so vinnig versprei nie. Die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie het die […]
# Over ten-thousand people were evacuated in southwestern France overnight as a rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through two-thousand hectares of land west of Bordeaux. Data shows wildfires have burnt more land in Europe already this year than the annual average in the past two decades, as the world’s fastest-warming continent has endured three back-to-back heatwaves. […]
# Iran beskuldig Amerika dat hy Pickaxe Mountain as regverdiging vir bykomende aanvalle gebruik. Daar word vermoed die ondergrondse terrein is ‘n kernaanleg waar Teheran glo besig is om ‘n terrein vir uraanverryking te bou. Die Amerikaanse president, Donald Trump, het vroeër die week gedreig om die aanleg binnekort aan te val. Iran waarsku enige […]
# The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo has increased to two-thousand-536, including one-thousand-and-33 deaths. The country’s Public Health Institute says in its latest report 50 new cases were detected in the eastern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu on Monday. This makes it the fastest-spreading outbreak to date. The […]
# Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking sê Suid-Afrika bly verbind tot oop, opbouende en doelgerigte gesprekke met die Ekonomiese Gemeenskap van Wes-Afrika-state, veral oor streeksbestendigheid en migrasiebestuur. ECOWAS veroordeel xenofobiese aanvalle teen Wes-Afrikane in Suid-Afrika en steun ‘n voorstel om die kwessie op die Afrika-unie se vergadering te bespreek. Die departement se woordvoerder, […]
# Die Departement van Internasionale Betrekkinge en Samewerking beskryf twee Ghanese burgers se versoekskrif aan die Internasionale Strafhof as opportunisties. Hulle vra die hof vir ‘n voorlopige ondersoek na aanvalle teen buitelanders in Suid-Afrika omdat hulle glo dit kan neerkom op misdade teen die mensdom. Die departement se woordvoerder, Chrispin Phiri, sê die voorlegging voldoen […]
# Financial inclusion among Namibian adults increased to 86-percent last year from 78-percent in 2017. The Namibian Statistics Agency’s Namibia Financial Inclusion Survey shows 81.5-percent of adults now use formal financial services. However, the proportion of adults who borrowed money increased to 49.0-percent last year, up from 42.1-percent in 2017. The agency’s Mirjam Shihepo says the […]
# Iran has accused the US of using Pickaxe Mountain as a pretext for further attacks. This is believed to be an underground nuclear site where Tehran is suspected of building an undeclared enrichment facility. US president Donald Trump earlier this week threatened to attack the facility soon. Iran has warned any American attack on its […]
