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 Namibia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A remarkable strip of land in the northeast, known as the Caprivi Strip is the vestige of a narrow corridor demarcated for Germany to access the Zambezi River.
The majority of the Namibian population consists of a mostly fl African (Bantu and Khoisan) (84%) - mostly of the Ovambo tribe, which forms about half of the population, concentrated in the north of the country.
Most of Namibian whites and nearly all those of mixed race are Afrikaans speakers and share similar origins, culture, religion and genealogy as the white and coloured populations of neighbouring South Africa.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/na/namibia.html   (1244 words)

  
 Namibia (11/04)
Namibian manufacturing has historically been inhibited by a small domestic market, dependence on imported goods, limited supply of local capital, widely dispersed population, small skilled labor force and high relative wage rates, and subsidized competition from South Africa.
Tourism is a rapidly growing sector of the Namibian economy and a significant generator of employment.
While most Namibians are economically active in one form or another, the bulk of this activity is in the informal sector, primarily subsistence agriculture.
www.state.gov /outofdate/bgn/n/40393.htm   (4064 words)

  
 List of adjectival forms of place names - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of the places.
Singular forms simply remove the final 's' or, in the case of -ese endings, are the same as the plural forms.
List of adjectival forms of place names, Continents, Nations, Cities, U.S. states, Canadian provinces and territories, Australian states and territories, Subcontinental regions, Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, Other, Former nations and regions, Astronomy, Solar system, Moons, Earth, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Fictional regions, Notes, See also and Lists of place names.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_adjectival_forms_of_place_names   (694 words)

  
 Namibia (10/06)
The estimated adult literacy rate of Namibians was relatively high at 81% as of 2003.
Although Namibian agriculture--excluding fishing--contributed less than 5% of Namibia's GDP in 2003, about 70% of the Namibian population depends on agricultural activities for livelihood, mostly in the subsistence sector.
U.S. citizens who are long-term visitors or traveling in dangerous areas are encouraged to register their travel via the State Department’s travel registration web site at https://travelregistration.state.gov or at the Consular section of the U.S. embassy upon arrival in a country by filling out a short form and sending in a copy of their passports.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5472.htm   (4718 words)

  
 BOPA Daily News Archive
An application for their extradition was made by the Namibian government through the Attorney General in 2001, citing high treason, attempted murder, robbery, possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives without a licence as crimes for which the men were wanted.
Presenting an appeal on behalf of the Namibian government at the Court of Appeal, Bafi Nlanda, of the Attorney General's Chambers, argued before a panel five judges that the High Court should have established whether the crimes constituted "extradition crimes" in terms of the Extradition Act of 1990.
Nlanda contended that the 1990 Act did not have a list of extradition crimes hence treason and sedition were crimes for which a fugitive could be extradited subject to the 1968 Act.
www.gov.bw /cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20040713&i=Court_reserves_judgement_on_Namibians_extradition   (713 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The majority of the Namibian population is fl (84%) - mostly of the Ovambo tribe, which forms about half of the population.
Most of the whites and nearly all Namibians of mixed race are Afrikaans speakers and share similar origins and history as the white and coloured populations of neighbouring South Africa.
Half of all Namibians speak Ovambo as their first language, whereas the most widely understood language is Afrikaans.
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Namibia   (1218 words)

  
 UNTAG
By the beginning of the election campaign, due to start at the thirteenth week, all political prisoners and detainees, wherever they were held, were to be released and all discriminatory or restrictive laws which might abridge or inhibit the objective of free and fair elections were to be repealed.
Every adult Namibian was to be eligible, without discrimination or fear of intimidation from any source, to vote, campaign and stand for election to a Constituent Assembly which would draw up and adopt the Constitution for an independent and sovereign Namibia.
The Committee was to plan the integration of Namibian armed personnel who had fought on both sides of the war and develop a military structure for a future Namibian army.
www.un.org /Depts/dpko/dpko/co_mission/untagFT.htm   (16309 words)

  
 300 farms on new Govt list   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Some officials yesterday maintained that a list of commercial farms the State intends to seize to resettle thousands of landless fl Namibians is still being drawn up.
The list seen by The Namibian was compiled in April.
But Government said that list, containing nearly an equal number of South Africans and Germans, was not correct and that proper screening was still being done.
www.namibian.com.na /2003/july/national/03ED1394B8.html   (697 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Q&A: Namibia votes
Namibians go to the polls on 15 and 16 November to elect a new president and also to vote for members of the National Assembly.
National Assembly members are voted in by proportional representation, involving a list system where parties nominate as many candidates as there are seats available in the National Assembly.
They are the Namibian chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa), the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Pretoria-based Media Tenor South Africa.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/4006405.stm   (823 words)

  
 Namibia News Online (3) - 3/8/98
According to the national household income and expenditure survey of 1993/94, the combined rates of unemployment and underemployment were estimated to be as high as 60 per cent, consisting of 263 000 adults out of a labour force of 435 000.
They include the structure of the Namibian economy inherited from its colonial apartheid past which has not been able to achieve sustainable economic growth; and a small economy with an underdeveloped rural sector and a small modern sector dominated by the production and export of a few primary products and a very small manufacturing sector.
The Namibian government, which recorded a surplus of N$132 million in September 1996 has now registered a deficit of N$308 million, according to the Bank of Namibiaís quarterly release for the period up to December 1997.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/nano3.html   (4214 words)

  
 Will Brangelina Save Namibia? | Progressive U
Hopelonge Ipinge, the Namibian ambassador to the United States, told ABC News that officials had been happy to help the couple by arresting and even deporting intrusive paparazzi.
Namibians say they have a deep cultural respect for privacy, but many are thrilled by all the publicity.
Namibians are hoping the stars will help pave the way for a tourist boom, and they have considered Shiloh's birth a special day for the nation.
www.progressiveu.org /002237-will-brangelina-save-namibia   (562 words)

  
 Defining Mortacracies
Surely, if a state is listed in only one table, it would not be a good choice, although it may have the potential to be a mortacracy.
I eliminated the free states of Grenada, Mali, Namibia, Nauru, and Trinidad and Tobago from this list, as there were reasons for their death toll beyond the capacity and policies of their governments, such as the effects of hurricanes, deep impoverishment due to previous unfree regimes, and rampant HIV.
Although this list was arrived at systematically, it is a list that surely contains those states that would most likely be chosen by those familiar with the human cost of the world's worst thug regimes.
www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/DEFINING_THE_MORTACRACIES.HTM   (6645 words)

  
 || LIRS || From the President's Desk -- April 2006
This law gave sweeping powers to the police to detain persons without trial or access to legal counsel, created a broad list of “terrorist” crimes, and switched the burden of proof to defendants to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that they had not engaged in alleged “terrorist” activities.
Three women, nurses at a Lutheran hospital, were accused of having given 10 Rand ($11.50 at the time) each to SWAPO and of having crossed the border into Angola to minister to Namibian refugees, bringing them modest amounts of clothing, medical supplies and sanitary napkins.
After a three-month trial in which it became clear that a number of the state witnesses had been tortured in detention, four of the accused were found guilty.
www.lirs.org /News/PresDesk/RD200604.html   (673 words)

  
 OJPCR 5.1 -- Truth and Reconciliation: The Road Not Taken in Namibia
Although there was a surprisingly large response to a public appeal for Namibian citizens to submit information to the ICRC that generated 1,700 names, members of the PCC subsequently compiled a list of many (hundreds) more names of alleged detainees not included in the ICRC list.
Documentary evidence, as well as interviews with prominent Namibian activists, indicates that SWAPO's persecution of their own soldiers and supporters during the war was tainted by ethnocentrism on the part of Ovambo officials.
Throughout the 1990s, Namibians were generally concerned about the overall economic situation in the country.
www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/5_1conway.htm   (5269 words)

  
 House of Commons Hansard Debates for 19 Jun 1989
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list in relation to clause 167 of the Finance Bill on instruments of variation those professional bodies or firms which have made representations (a) opposed to and (b) in favour of the principle or the detail of the clause.
Waiting list information is collected centrally on the basis of the number of people waiting for admission to hospital in a particular specialty and it is not known, therefore, how many are waiting for surgical operations.
The UNHCR has operated its programme for Namibian refugees on the basis of estimates that there were 69,000 Namibian refugees in Angola and a further 7,000 in Zambia.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm198889/cmhansrd/1989-06-19/Writtens-3.html   (3124 words)

  
 Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)
All non- Namibian applicants requesting partial scholarships must submit a letter justifying their need for financial support with their application.
A) List all jobs that you have held with name of employer, job title, and dates of employment.
List the financial support available to you and include confirmation letter from source of support.
conbio.net /bboard/view-post.cfm?Post=570   (729 words)

  
 AEGiS-IRIN: (IRIN) NAMIBIA: Government spurns AIDS programme
A representative of the pharmaceutical company told IRIN the Namibian health ministry was not represented at the Johannesburg meeting.
Namibia is now in the second phase of the epidemic, whereby a lot of the infected people are now dying from the disease." The source added that of the estimated 1.6 million Namibians, 150,000 are infected with HIV.
According to 1998 figures from Namibia's UNAIDS office, a total of 5,856 people in the country died from AIDS with the northwest areas topping the list with 3,027 deaths, followed by the northeast with 1,177 deaths.
www.aegis.com /news/irin/1999/IR990502.html   (503 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD . Rough Cut . This Land Is Ours . Land Redistribution: A Question of Race, Politics and Economics | PBS
The government's mission states that land reform should help give land to landless Namibians -- people who don't have access to land to generate an income for themselves and their families.
If all these farms were incredibly profitable and all you had to do was drop a seed into the ground or just let your cattle graze and that was that, the policy wouldn't end up costing anything.
We have to ask ourselves, "How much is it going to cost the fl Namibians themselves or the Namibian taxpayer to achieve racial balance in ownership of land?" Because farming really is not the productive cornucopia it might have been in the past.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/rough/2005/08/this_land_is_oufeat.html   (1151 words)

  
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The list included lands minister Hifikepunye Pohamba, speaker of the national assembly Mose Tjitendero, and chief executive of the transport parastatal, TransNamib, John Shaetonhodi.
But Frans Tsheehama, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Lands and Resettlement, told IRIN that while some senior government officials have bought land through the loan scheme, the process was transparent and followed the official guidelines.
All of the individuals mentioned in the [CoD] list applied for loans through the legal channels and will be expected to repay those loans, irrespective of their political affiliation.
irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=35912&SelectRegion=Southern_Africa   (1013 words)

  
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One in five Namibians and Zambians are infected; one in four in Zimbabwe and Swaziland share the same fate.
In Lesotho, 23 percent of adults are HIV positive and in Botswana, the worst-ravaged country on the planet, 35.8 percent of adults carry the virus that can become full-blown AIDS, for which there is no cure.
According to 2000 data, South Africa tops the list of eight countries worldwide that are home to more than one million people living with AIDS.
www.aegis.com /news/afp/2001/AF0106G4.html   (550 words)

  
 Namibia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Namibian landscape consists primarily of central highlands, of which the highest point is the Brandberg at 2,606 metres (8,550 ft).
The majority of the Namibian population is fl African – mostly of the Ovambo tribe, which forms about half of the population – and concentrated in the north of the country.
According to the Namibian Defence Ministry, enlistments of both men and women will number no more than 7,500.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Namibia   (1830 words)

  
 Namibia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More information on politics and government of Namibia can be found at the Politics and government of Namibia series.
The Namibian landscape consists primarily of central highlands, of which the highest point is the Brandberg at 2,606 metres (8,550 ft).
All Portuguese are white miners and settlers from their former colony of Angola.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Namibia   (1397 words)

  
 Headline News The Kathmandu Post (Nepal)
While the Beesh Hazar Tal lies in the vicinity of Royal Chitwan National Park—one of Nepal’s two natural sites included in the list of UNESCO World Heritages—the Jagadishpur Reservoir is at Kapilvastu, near Lumbini, and is a haven for migratory and wintering waterfowls and other birds.
Nepali innings never acquired the momentum it should have during the middle overs, thanks to some brilliant ground fielding from the Namibians who caused as many as four run outs, three in the top middle order.
The Namibians were guilty of presenting Nepal with 15 extra runs while Nepali bowlers were more disciplined giving away only 5.
www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/englishdaily/ktmpost/2002/jan/jan31/index.htm   (2902 words)

  
 SARPN - Policy issues: HIV and nutrition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The majority of the people (more than 1 million), live in the North on communal land, are asset poor, depend on subsistence farming and small stock rearing and are vulnerable to natural disasters such as recurrent droughts, locusts, floods and animal diseases.
In total, the GRN is among the 8 countries in the world who spend the highest share of GDP on public expenditure in education (almost 25 per cent) and is only second to South Africa in Southern Africa in terms of per capita spending in the health sector.
HIV/AIDS is recognized as one of the greatest threats to the well-being of children in Namibia as 22 per cent of pregnant women were HIV- positive according to the 2002 sero-sentinel survey.
www.sarpn.org.za /documents/d0001116   (1938 words)

  
 Under 19s Draw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
THE Namibian schools under19 soccer team drew three-all against Westphalia in Germany on Monday.
The Namibians are currently in Germany on a reciprocal visit after the Westphalia Under18 team visited Namibia during the independence celebrations and played two games.
The young Namibians, however, lost by four goals to nil against Germany’s national Under20 team on Tuesday.
www.grnnet.gov.na /News/Archive/2002/July/Week2/under.htm   (176 words)

  
 Namibia, Forbes.com Capital Hospitality Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The economy is heavily dependent on the extraction and processing of minerals for export.
A high per capita GDP, relative to the region, hides the great inequality of income distribution; nearly one-third of Namibians had annual incomes of less than $1,400 in constant 1994 dollars, according to a 1993 study.
The Namibian economy is closely linked to South Africa with the Namibian dollar pegged to the South African rand.
www.forbes.com /lists/2006/6/CHI065.html   (330 words)

  
 Box 5.5 Namibia’s conservancies: Nature in the hands of the people
In 1996, the Namibian government began encouraging its citizens to take the lead in managing lands that were owned communally.
A landmark policy encourages Namibians to form “conservancies”—legally recognized associations governed by community members who live in designated areas.
These conservancies are granted the right to benefit directly from wildlife resources in their particular areas, and are responsible for their sustainable use and management.
biodiv.wri.org /pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1760   (357 words)

  
 Elena Travel Services: Black list of Namibian service providers
We finally decided to start with this long anticipated page of complaints about Namibian service providers who left their customers dissatisfied, offended or do not honour their obligations.
On Saturday morning, at breakfast she reluctantly provided me one more slice of bread, explaining loud voice to all customers at the table that she was giving the smallest slice since" I will not be able to appreciate her very special German bread".
Two young Namibian clients took their breakfast at the same time, she was very rude to them, asking them to take their breakfast in 15 minutes since other customers are coming to eat too.
www.namibweb.com /blacklist.htm   (976 words)

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