Ricardo Amunjera and Marc Themba are a happily married gay couple living in Namibia, where homosexuality is against the law. They'll join us on Tuesday to answer your questions Ricardo Amunjera and Marc Themba are credited with being Namibia's first gay married couple. Though homosexuality is criminalised in Namibia, the pair tied the knot in South Africa and returned to Namibia to become prominent...
12 - 16 May: Been offline? Catch up on the development-related news, images, infographics and reports that matter Prof Aderemi Kuku , who has been elected as the fourth president of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) . Make us proud to be human #myclimateask http://t.co/lYzlnFDDZ6 pic.twitter.com/Xh9rhPdPqm Continue reading... ...
Anti-gay laws were introduced to Africa by Western colonialists. Now, as former colonisers recognise LGBT rights Africa is still stuck in the past, writes Val Kalende At a time when more countries are moving towards inclusive human rights , Africa is taking steps backwards. Backwards, that is, specifically on the issue of gay rights, though sadly not to before colonialism, the era in which anti-gay...
From the hipsters of Namibia to those taking inspiration from the sapeurs of the Congo, vintage fashion is hot in Africa right now. We asked you to share the best vintage fashion from across the continent and here's our pick of the bunch. How do you rate the style? Tell us in the comments below. Continue reading... ...
Miners who dug ore to supply the military found to be dying of cancers and other illnesses at Rio Tinto's Rössing mine Miners who dug uranium ore that supplied the British and US military in the 1970s with the raw material for bombs and civil nuclear power are reported to be dying of cancers and unexplained illnesses after working in one of Africa's largest mines. A study based on questionnaires of...
With retro fashion hot on the continent right now, This is Africa catches up with Loux the Vintage Guru the designer behind Namibia's sharpest dressers Black hipsters in tweed jackets and round spectacles? Trilby hats? Oversize coats? From the fashionistas of Lagos to the streets of Jozi, vintage is trending in Africa right now. And at the forefront is Namibian designer Loux the Vintage Guru, who...
From colonial cartographers to digital depictions the continent is being sold short, says Think Africa Press About halfway through Jonathan Swift's boisterously witty epic poem On Poetry: A Rhapsody , the 18th century Anglo-Irish satirist briefly turns his attention to maps of Africa, writing: So geographers, in Afric maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants...
The 19041908 genocide against the Herero is considered the first in the 20th century. Now the surviving descendants want their land back Over the weekend, Geoffrey York, the Africa correspondent for the Canadian Globe and Mail (and apparently also the only correspondent for a major Canadian publication on the African continent) wrote, from Namibia , about the current Herero struggle for land, dignity,...
s aim is to increase this figure to around 5% by the end of fiscal 2015. Women accounted for 287 of the 9,691 senior officials in central government ministries and agencies as of last October, up 28 from January 2013. Namibia: prime minister lashes out at senior officials over inefficiency The prime minister Hage Geingob has accused senior government officials , including permanent secretaries, of...
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Protests greet sale by Dallas hunting club of papers allowing holder to kill rare specimen in Namibia ...
Texas auction hopes to raise $200,000 to help protect endangered by selling Namibian hunting permit ...
s deputy police commissioner, Bollen Sankwasa, said. The plane was carrying 27 passengers, including 10 Mozambicans, nine Angolans, five Portuguese, and one citizen each from France, Brazil and China, the airline said. Six crew members were on board. Flight TM470 from Maputo, the Mozambican capital, did not land as scheduled in Luanda, the Angolan capital, on Friday afternoon, and the airline initially...
deteriorated' Namibia: president warns civil servants to stop sabotaging government projects Namibia's founding president Sam Nujoma warned civil servants to stop sabotaging the government's socio-economic development programmes. He referred to dissenting civil servants as "elements of Koevoet", a paramilitary-trained police counter insurgency unit in south-west Africa during the Namibian independence...
s image as a booming economy. Children as young as nine are digging wells to fetch water, amid a severe drought in southern regions of Angola that has forced people to use unclean water for consumption and cooking, according to the UN . Neighbouring Namibia, which has also been badly affected, has declared a drought emergency and appealed for humanitarian aid. Angola has done neither, although it has...
s longest dry spell in a generation One in three people in Namibia is at risk of malnutrition, the UN has warned, as the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa endures its worst drought for a generation. The government declared a state of emergency after the failure of crops in May and pledged $20m (£13m) of relief for the worst-hit households. The Kunene region in the north has had no rain for two years,...
Zenzeli Khoisan explains how to pronounce !Nami=Nüs, the indigenous name replacing the colonial title of Lüderitz David Smith ...
s Holocaust . Authors David Olusoga and Casper Erichsen argued that the camps – with their "bureaucratisation of killing" – influenced the Nazis in the second world war. In 2011, Germany sent back 20 of the Herero and Nama skulls that had been transported there for racial experiments. They were greeted at Namibia's international airport by warriors on horseback who let out battle cries. Hundreds of...
s remarkable scholarship programme pays for 12,000 Africans to study in Chinese universities In Africa, China has an image problem. You've read the headlines: China is flooding our markets with cheap fakes; it is callously poaching our rhinos ; it is building stadiums and roads that don't last a decade; it is undercutting our labour ; it is stealing our diamonds; it is coming to colonise us all over...
s government, but a request by animal protection groups to ban the practice has been ignored. Release of the footage, taken by conservation group Earthrace Conservation , coincides with the start of this year's seal cull which is expected to kill 80-90,000 seal pups and up to 6,000 bulls. Campaigners say the seals are killed in order to sell their fat and fur, while the government has previously said...