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With Namibia's National Assembly and Presidential elections around the corner the issue of equitable women's representation at the highest levels of political decision-making has been placed at the centre of the election agenda. (AllAfrica)

EIGHT horses found grazing on the Gross Barmen road outside Okahandja have been rescued by Okahandja Police Detective William Grey. (AllAfrica)

THE Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) could face a bitter legal wrangle after it withdrew the election observer status of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR). (AllAfrica)

THE Namibian Police are on full alert for the elections and won't tolerate anybody breaking the law, regardless of the political party membership card he or she carries. (AllAfrica)

THE Brave Warriors continue to slide down the Fifa rankings and are now placed 114th from their previous 101st position in September this year. (AllAfrica)

To afford readers and voters more insight into the policy positions of the various political parties taking part in the upcoming National Assembly and Presidential elections in November, New Era approached political parties to expound on their policies on different issues. (AllAfrica)

The Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) took its election campaign to the Omaheke Region recently. (AllAfrica)

Congress of Democrats (CoD) President, Ben Ulenga, says it is high time the country moves beyond poverty and ignorance to the other side where prosperity can be achieved. (AllAfrica)

More than 70 people at Okonguati exchanged their DTA membership cards for Swapo's membership cards, saying the days of DTA leadership in Epupa constituency are over. (AllAfrica)

Air Namibia-Ghana, has commenced direct flights from Accra to Johannesburg, South Africa and Windhoek, Namibia . (AllAfrica)

THE Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG) are officially on board to develop Namibia's only cement factory, and have approved loans of nearly half a billion dollars in total to Ohorongo Cement. (AllAfrica)

A TOTAL of 1 181 835 Namibians are eligible to vote in the presidential and parliamentary elections on Friday and Saturday, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

THE annual Top Score Seven-A-Side football competition for companies kicks off in Windhoek today, with 60 teams expected to be part of the popular event this year. (AllAfrica)

FIRST National Bank (FNB) has responded to an article in The Namibian of November 17, where it was stated that no further applications would be taken for the financing of solar power systems. (AllAfrica)

The reputation of a children's hostel in Usakos was tested last month when local newspapers received a letter from a "concerned teacher" in which an Usakos-couple was accused of abusing the children who are living there. (AllAfrica)

Pedestrian Kefas Kahona (19) was hit by a car in Independence Avenue in Oshakati on Saturday evening, after a 29-year-old man lost control of his car. (AllAfrica)

A MAN at Okakarara, Wezemba Tjikuere, has been fined N$200 for animal cruelty after cutting off a neighbour's dog's ears and tail. (AllAfrica)

CORRUPTION has become endemic in Namibia under the Swapo government, Nudo President Kuaima Riruako charged at his party's last big election campaign meeting in Windhoek on Sunday. (AllAfrica)

RUNWAY 19, the notorious runway at Eros Airport that was used for take-off in last Sunday's air crash in which three people died, has not been surveyed for safety take-off gradients, an air safety seminar revealed on Friday. (AllAfrica)

THE Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP) has denied the involvement of its presidential candidate in the "scandal of April 1 [1989]" in which Swapo fighters clashed with South African forces on the eve of the implementation of Resolution 435. (AllAfrica)

Information about the new air force base being built for the Namibian Defence Force (NDF) near Karibib has proven hard to come by as the Ministry was unwilling to give details. (AllAfrica)

YET another one bites the dust. A seemingly surprised, emotional Geraldine left the BBA house on Sunday night. Remember her? While in the house, she was the reserved girl who never had much to say. (AllAfrica)

A 30-year-old woman was murdered, allegedly by her boyfriend, at Khorixas on Tuesday afternoon, the Police have reported. (AllAfrica)

WINDHOEK Friday, October 30, 2009 (IRIN) - In Onamutenya village, northern Namibia, the Shigwedha household leaves their homestead at the crack of dawn to make the monthly four-hour walk to fetch antiretroviral (ARV) medication from the local clinic. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts. (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject. (irinnews.org)

MIDRAND Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Monday, October 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Seventeen countries signed the African Union convention on internally displaced persons (IDPs) after years of preparation culminated in a week of meetings in the Ugandan capital but a lot more hard work remains before it becomes effective, according to observers. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - The availability of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment and legislation prohibiting discrimination have helped turn HIV/AIDS into just another chronic disease, but an HIV-positive status can still be an obstacle to getting a loan or buying insurance. (irinnews.org)